Description
Clenchwarton, a village and a parish in Norfolk, on the Ouse new estuary and the Midland and Great Northern Junction railway, on which there is a station, 3 miles W of Lynn. There is a post office under King's Lynn; money order office, West Lynn; telegraph office, Lynn. Acreage, 2950; population, 608. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich ; gross yearly value, £442. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Perpendicular style. There are Methodist New Connexion, and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
