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Weeting

WEETING, a parish, in the union of Thetford, hundred of Grimshoe, W. division of Norfolk, 2 miles (N.) from Brandon-Ferry; containing 303 inhabitants. This parish is on the road from London to Lynn, through Brandon; and is bounded on the south by the Lesser Ouse, which separates the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. Weeting Hall is a beautiful residence: in the park are situated the church of All Saints, and the ruins of St. Mary's. The parish contains about 1500 acres of plantation, well stocked with game; and on the Broomhall estate is a fine sheet of water called the Mere, abounding in wild-fowl and fish. A fair for cattle is held at Broomhall, in July. The living comprises the united rectories of All Saints and St. Mary, valued jointly in the king's books at £18. 9. 9½.; net income, £470; patrons, the Master and Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge: the glebe contains 140 acres. Some slight remains exist of an Augustine priory founded at Broomhall about the time of King John, and granted by a bull of Clement VII., in May 1528, to Cardinal Wolsey. Within the park are the ruins of a moated castle; and about two miles to the north-east are "Grimes Graves," with a mound or keep on the east side, the whole covering about fourteen acres. On the south is a dyke called the Devil's Ditch; and about half a mile to the east are the remains of Weeting Cross, much resorted to by pilgrims in former times, when visiting the shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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