Description
Bintree or Bintry, a parish in Norfolk, 1 mile from Foulsham station, on the G.E.R., and 5 1/2 miles WNW of Reepham. It has a post office under Dereham; money order and telegraph office, Foulsham. Acreage, 1478; population of the civil parish, 378; of the ecclesiastical with Themelthorpe, 463. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Themelthorpe, in the diocese of Norwich; joint net yearly value, £358 with residence. Patron, Lord Hastings. The church is an ancient edifice of flint in the Perpendicular style with a western tower. There is also a Primitive Methodist chapel. Bintry manor within this parish belongs to Christ's College, Cambridge.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
