Description
Crownthorpe, a village and a parish in Norfolk, on the river Yare, 2 1/4 miles NW of Wymondham, and 1 mile E from Kimberley station on the G.E.R. Post town, Wymondham, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 714; population, 82. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich, annexed to Carlton Forhoe; gross yearly value, £129 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Kimberley. The church is a small building of stone and flint in the Early English style.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
