HAPPISBURGH, a parish in the hundred of HAPPING,
county  of NORFOLK, 6 miles (E.) from North
Walsham, containing 523 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and
diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £6.6. 8.,
and in the patronage of the Bishop of Norwich. Th
cluirch is dedicated to St. Mary. This parish lies, on the
coast of the North sea. The skeleton of a very large
fish was discovered in 1659, by the fall of a cliff into
the sea, which from appearances had lain buried near
the summit.