Acle, a small town and a parish in Norfolk. The town stands near the river Bure, with a station on the Yarmouth, Acle, and Norwich line, 8 1/2 miles W from Yarmouth, and 11 E from Norwich. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Norwich, and was formerly a market-town, and had a fair on Midsummer day, now abolished. There are, however, weekly cattle sales on Thursdays. The parish lies chiefly around the town, but part of it is at some distance, in the Marshes, Acreage, 3534; population, 933. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; yearly value, £580. The church, which dates from the 14th century, is a building of flint and stone, consisting of chancel, nave, N and S porches, and a circular embattled western tower. An Augustinian priory anciently stood at Acle.