Description
Letheringsett, a village and a parish in Norfolk. The village stands on the river GIaven, 1 mile W by N of Holt station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway, is a pretty place, and has a post office under Holt (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Holt. Acreage of parish, 849; population, 284. Letheringsett Hall, the seat of the Hardy family, is a chief residence surrounded by gardens and plantations. There is a large brewery. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £160 with residence. The church is a building of flint in the Gothic style of the 13th century, has a round Norman tower and Norman font, and was restored in 1875.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
