SHIMPLING, a parish in the hundred of Diss,
county of NORFOLK, 3 miles (N. E.) from Diss, containing
179 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese
of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £ 10. 13. 4.
P.J.Harrison, Esq. was patron in 1821. The church,
dedicated to St. George, was erected early in the thirteenth
century, but the steeple appears to be of more
ancient date; a representation of St. George and the
Dragon, and the arms of the Shimplings, are carved on
the front of it.