Sheringham, Norfolk

Description
Sheringham, two villages and a parish in Norfolk. The villages are Lower Sheringham and Upper Sheringham, the former having a post, money order, and telegraph office, and the latter a post office under Cromer; money order and telegraph office, Lower Sheringham. Upper Sheringham stands 1 1/2 mile SSW of Lower Sheringham, and is about 4 miles WNW from Cromer, and 4 ENE from Holt. It contains the parish church, a building of flint in the Early English and later styles. Lower Sheringham is built between cliffs which rise nearly 100 feet above the beach, and is a rapidly growing place of seaside resort. It has a station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway, is well. drained, and has an excellent water supply. It is also a considerable fishing station, having about 250 boats employed in the herring, cod, flat fish, lobster, crab, and whelk fisheries. The village is a lifeboat and coastguard station. Extensive golf links were laid out in 1891 on the cliffs, the course being the longest nine-hole course in England. There are also ladies' links. The parish comprises 2270 acres; population, 1490. There is a parish council of eleven members. The manor with fiheringham Hall, a mansion of white brick standing in a pleasant park, belongs to the Upcher family. A Black priory, a cell to Nutley Abbey, was founded here in the time of Henry II. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £149 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Norwich. A new church was erected in 1895-96 at Lower Sheringham, and there are also Free Methodist and Primitive Methodist chapels and Salvation Army barracks.