CASTLE-ACRE, (Norfolk) 4 m. N. W. of Swafham, had anciently a castle in a field near a rivulet, which was the residence of
the Earls of Warren, of whom John the last Earl gave it to K. Edw. II. but Edw. III. granted it to that Earl's nephew,
Fitz-Alan Earl of Arundel, in whose family it continued till the R. of Q. Eliz. when Hen. the then Earl sold it to Sir
Tho. Gresham, who also bought the priory here of the D. of Norfolk, to whom it had been granted by Hen. VIII. 'Tis now, or
was lately, in the possession of the Cokes of Holkham.