Description
Thursford, a parish, with a village, in Norfolk, with a station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway, 4 miles ESE of Walsingham. It has a post office under East Dereham; money order and telegraph office, Walsingham. Acreage, 1353; population of the civil parish, 241; of the ecclesiastical, with Great Snoring, 784. The manor, with Thursford Hall, belongs to the Scott-Chad family. The living is a rectory, annexed to Great Snoring. The church is a small and ancient building of stone in the Early English style, and has been restored.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
