BARWICK is a parish 2 miles east from Docking station on the West Norfolk section of the Great Eastern railway, and 5 west-south-west from Burnham Market, in the North Western division of the county, Smithdon hundred, Smithdon and Brothercross petty sessional division, Docking union. Little Walsingham county court district, rural deanery of Hitcham, archdeaconry of Lynn and diocese of Norwich. The church formerly stood in the grounds of Barwick House, and the foundations may still be traced. The parishioners attend Stanhoe church. The living is a discharged vicarage, united to the rectory of Stanhoe, commuted tithe rent-charge, £485, average, £359, joint net yearly value £341, including 21 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Mrs. Seymour, and held since 1884 by the Rev. Henry Earle Bulwer M.A. of Pembroke College, Cambridge, who resides at Stanhoe. Here are the summer kennels of the West Norfolk fox-hounds. Barwick House is the seat of Mrs. Seymour. The principal landowners are Mrs. Seymour and the trustees of the late John Savory esq. The soil is of a good mixed character; subsoil, chiefly clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, roots and seeds. The area is 1,302 acres; rateable value, £988; the population in 1891 was 63.

The children of this place attend the school at Stanhoe.