Description
Billingford, a village and a parish in Norfolk, on the river Wensum, 1 1/2 mile ESE of Elmham station on the G.E.R., and 3 1/2 miles SSW of Foulsham, with a poat office under Dereham ; money order and telegraph office, Elmham. Acreage, 1041; population, 315. The manor belongs to the Earl of Leicester. An hospital for poor travellers was founded at Beckhall here, in the time of Henry III., by William Beck. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £241, with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Leicester.
The church is a building of flint in the Early English style, and there is a small Primitive Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
