Description
Bircham, Newton, a village and a parish in Norfolk, 1 mile N of Great Bircham, 3 miles S of Docking station on the G.E.R., and 11 W by N of Fakenham. Post town, Bircham, under King's Lynn; money order and telegraph office, Docking. Acreage, 1168, population of the civil parish, 85; of the ecclesiastical, with Bircham-Tofts, 244. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Bircham-Tofts, in the diocese of Norwich; joint net yearly value, £231 with residence, in the gift of the Marquis of Cholmondeley, who is lord of the manor and sole landholder. The church is a small building in the Perpendicular style, with an ancient font.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
