SNORING (GREAT), a parish in the northern division of the hundred of GREENHOE, county of NORFOLK, 1 mile (S. S. E.) from Little Walsingham, containing 360 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, with that of Thursford annexed, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £24, and in the patronage of the Master and Fellows of St. John's College, Cambridge. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.