North Pickenham, Norfolk

Description
Pickenham, North, a parish, with a village, in Norfolk, on the river Wissey, 3 1/2 miles SE of Swaffham, and 1 1/2 mile W of Holme Hale station on the Bury, Thetford, and Swaffham section of the G.E.R. It has a post office under Swaffham; money order and telegraph office, Swaffham. Acreage, 1615 ; population of the civil parish, 238 ; of the ecclesiastical, with Houghton-on-the Hill, 289. There is a parish council consisting of five members and a chairman. The manor belongs to the Applewhaite family. There are two barrows. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Houghton-on-the Hill, in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £405 with residence. The church is a building of flint and stone in the Decorated style, and with the exception of the tower was rebuilt in 1863. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.