MUNDSLEY, a parish in the northern division
of the hundred of ERPINGHAM, county of NORFOLK, 5
miles (N. N. E.) from North Walsham, containing 333
inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in
the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich,
rated in the king's books at £ 8. 9 9., endowed with
£200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the King,
as Duke of Lancaster. The church is dedicated to All
Saints. The parish lies on the coast of the North sea,
in a cliff near which were found, some years ago, large
petrified bones of the elephant, also horns of the moose
deer, and other bones of an immense size, supposed to
be diluvial remains.