Norfolk - Breckles

Francis White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory, of Norfolk 1854, p. 859

BRECKLES, or BRECCLES, a small parish, 5 miles S. by E. of Watton, has 136 souls, 27 houses, and about 1,500 acres of land, the property of Edward Kerrison, Esq., the lord of the manor, and patron of the Church, which is dedicated to St. Margaret, and is a discharged vicarage, valued in the King's book at £7 7s. 11d., and in 1831 at £41. From 1767 to 1824, it was augmented with £1,000 Queen Anne's bounty. The Rev. W. S. Thorpe, of Shropham, is the incumbent. In 1806 John Stubbings died here in his 108th year.

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