Norfolk: Gasthorpe

White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1845

[Transcription copyright © Mike Bristow]

GASTHORPE, anciently called Gatesthorpe, is a parish in the vale of the Little Ouse, 3 miles S. by W. of East Harling, containing only a few scattered houses, 111 inhabitants, and about 825 acres of land, belonging to Thos. Thornhill, Esq., lord of the manor and patron of the CHURCH (St. Nicholas,) which has been long in ruins, and its rectory consolidated with Riddlesworth. The glebe is 21A., and the poor have 20s. a year, from land left by Dorothy Gawdy, in 1660.

DIRECTORY:-

 Norton     David    shopkeeper
 Sheldrake  Edward   farmer
 Smith      Robt.    blacksmith
 

See also the Gasthorpe parish page.

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September 1999