Description
Freethorpe, a village and a parish in Norfolk, near the river Yare, 2 miles N of Eeedham station on the G.E.R., and 4 S by E of Acle, with a post office under Norwich; money order and telegraph office, Reedham. Acreage, 904 of land and 145 of water; population of the civil parish, 416 ; of the ecclesiastical, 1274. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the rectory of Reedham, in the diocese of Norwich; joint net yearly value£ £429 with residence. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Norman style. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
