HORSEFORD, (Norfolk) bet. Norwich and Oulton, formerly bel. to the Claverings, then to the Uffords, and afterwards to the
Lds. Dacres, one of whom, viz. Gregory Ld. Dacres had a grant of it from Q. Eliz. it having been forfeited to the crown in
the R. of Hen. VIII. by his father's being convicted of murder. The Q. granted the reversion of it to Ld. Burleigh and the
Earl of Leicester. Here were once a castle and a park.