Description
Cockthorpe, a village and a parish in Norfolk, near the coast, 3 miles E by S of Wells station on the G.E.R., and 4£- NE of Walsingham. Post town, Wells; money order and telegraph office, Wells. Acreage, 552; population, 67. The living is a rectory, with that of Blakeney and the perpetual curacy of Glandford annexed, in the diocese of Norwich ; joint value, £500. The church is old but good, and has a fine sculptured font. Admirals Sir Cloudesley Shovel and Sir John Narbrough were natives.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
