Description
Field Dalling, a village and a parish in Norfolk, 4 1/4 miles NNE from Thursford station on the Great Northern and Midland Joint railway, and 4 S from Blakeney, with a post and money order office under Dereham; telegraph office, Blakeney. Acreage, 1632 ; population, 346. An alien priory, a cell to Savigny, was founded here in the time of Henry II. by Maude de Harscoyle; was given to Chartreuse in Coventry; and passed to the Dean and Chapter of Norwich. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £130 with residence. The church is an ancient building of flint in the Early English style, and there are Primitive Methodist and United Free Methodist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
