Description
Cockley-Cley, a parish in Norfolk, on an affluent of the river Wissey, 4 miles SW by S of Swaffham station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Swaffham; money order and telegraph office, Beachamwell. Acreage, 4432 ; population, 221. Cley Hall is a chief residence, and the seat of the Buckforth family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £171 with residence. The church is an ancient building of flint and stone in the Early English style.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
