TILNEY (ALL-SAINTS), a parish in the Marshland
division of the hundred of FREEBRIDGE, county of
NORFOLK, 4 miles (W. S. W.) from Lynn-Regis, containing
404 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, with
Tilney St. Lawrence annexed, in the archdeaconry and
diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £30,
and in the patronage of the Master and Fellows of
Pembroke Hall, Cambridge. The church is principally
in the later style of English architecture. Tilney
Smeathj a common in this parish, is said to have
been so remarkably fertile, as to constantly feed thirty
thousand sheep, and all the horned cattle belonging to
seven villages, though no more than three miles long
and one broad.