WENDLING, a parish in the hundred of LAUNDITCH, county of NORFOLK, 4 miles (W.) from East Dereham, containing 351 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Norwich, endowed with £ 600 royal bounty, and in the patronage of T. W. Coke, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul. An abbey of Premonstratensian canons, in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was founded here before 1267, by William de Wendling, which at the dissolution had a revenue of £55. 18. 4.: part of the church was lately standing, but it has been removed for the purpose of mending the roads.