FIELD-DALLING, a parish in the northern division
of the hundred of GREENHOE, county of NORFOLK, 5
miles (E. by N.) from Little Walsingham, containing
322 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage,
in the archdeaconry and diocese of Norwich, rated in
the king's books at £5. 8. 1., and endowed with £400
royal bounty. Mrs. Smith was patroness in 1811. The
church is dedicated to St. Andrew. Maud deHarscolye,
in the time of Henry II., founded here a priory, as a cell
to the Cistercian abbey of Savigny in Normandy, which,
after the suppression of Alien houses, was granted by
Richard II. to the Carthusian monastery near Coventry,
and subsequently to the priory of Mountgrace.