ELLINGHAM (LITTLE), a parish in the hundred
of WAYLAND, county of NORFOLK, 3 miles (N.W.)
from Attleburgh, containing 240 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged rectory united to the vicarage of
Great Ellingham, in the archdeaconry and diocese of
Norwich, rated in the king's books at £7. 1. 10., endowed
with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal
bounty. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, has a quadrangular
tower on the south side. At the time of the
Conquest this place, though now only an inconsiderable
village, is said to have been three miles long.