SHERNBORNE, a parish in the hundred of SMITHDON, county of NORFOLK, 6 miles (N. E. by N.) from Castle-Rising, containing 135 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £8, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Ely. The church, dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, was built by one Thorpe, lord of Shernborne, when Felix, Bishop of the East Angles, came to convert the inhabitants to Christianity, and is said to be the second founded in that kingdom; it has no tower, and the chancel has been long in ruins.