Norfolk: Setchey

Kelly's Directory of Norfolk 1896

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SETCHEY is a parish on the road from Lynn to Downham, 4 miles south from Lynn, in the North Western division of the county, hundred, petty sessional division and union of Freebridge Lynn, Lynn county court district, rural deanery of Lynn (Norfolk), archdeaconry of Lynn and diocese of Norwich. The river Nar separates this parish from the parish of Wormegay.

The chapel erected in 1844 by the late Daniel Gurney esq. J.P. is a small edifice of Carr stone and brick, consisting of nave only, with a bell cote containing one bell: it is fitted with stalls, and has sittings for 75 persons. The living is a rectory annexed to that of North Runcton and Hardwick, tithes (Setch) commuted at £175, net yearly value £124, in the gift of trustees, and held since 1892 by the Rev. Henry Whitelock Turner, M.A. of Caius College, Cambridge, who resides at North Runcton.

Setch is comprised in the manor of North Runcton. Henry Hoff esq. of Shouldham Thorpe, William Bardell esq. of Lynn, the governors of Framlingham Hospital and the trustees of the late John Morton esq. of West Rudham, are the principal landowners. The soil is gravel, sand and clay; subsoil, sand and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips. The area is 707 acres; rateable value, £979; the population in 1891 was 105.

Wall Letter Box cleared at 6.10 p.m.; sunday 11.30 a.m. Letters arrive from Lynn at 7.30 a.m. & are dispatched at 6.10 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Lynn.

Assistant overseer, Edmund Brooks.

The children of this place attend the school at North Runcton.

         Brooks    Edmund         Bull P.H. farmer & coal merchant
                                    & assistant overseer
         Curtis    Charles        pig dealer
         Hurn      Amos           farmer
         Long      Charles Vince  grocer & draper
         Lyles     J.N.           inland revenue officer
         Newell    John           cowkeeper
         Payne     Emily (Mrs.)   laundress
         Petchell  William        Lynn Arms P.H. & horse breaker
         Seals     Edward         farmer
 

See also the Setchey parish page.

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January 2009