Norfolk: Weasenham All Saints

William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1883

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WEASENHAM ALL SAINTS, or Upper Weasenham, is a small scattered village and parish, 3½ miles N.W. of Litcham, 3½ from Rudham Railway Station, and 8 miles S.W. by S. of Fakenham. It is in Mitford and Launditch union and petty sessional division, East Dereham county court district, Norwich bankruptcy district, Launditch hundred, Massingham polling district of West Norfolk, Brisley rural deanery, and Norwich archdeaconry.

It had 364 inhabitants in 1881, living on 1988 acres, and has a rateable value of £2669. It is nearly all the property of the Earl of Leicester, who is lord of the manor and lessee of the rectorial tithes.

The CHURCH is a small building, comprising only nave, north aisle, chancel, and south porch. The vicarage, valued in the King's Book at £15 10s., is consolidated with Weasenham St. Peter's.

Here is a neat school of brick, in the Elizabethan style, with house attached, erected in 1859 at a cost of £900, on land given by the Earl of Leicester. There are 125 names on the books. The children from Weasenham St. Peter's attend here.

The Wesleyans and the Primitive Methodists have small chapels in the parish.

Here is a fair for toys, &c., on January 25. The Fuel Allotment, awarded in 1809 to Weasenham All Saints and St. Peter, is 40 acres, on which the poor cut fuel. The poor of All Saints have 10s. a year, left by John Billing in 1630, and the interest of £10 left by John Bailey, invested in Post Office Savings Bank.

POST from Swaffham, viâ Weasenham St. Peter. Letters arrive at 7 a.m. Rougham is the nearest Money Order Office.

         Blyth      James               farmer
         Chapman    John                shopkeeper & carrier to Lynn and
                                          Fakenham
         Calthrop   James Sykes         farmer, Upper hall
         Griffiths  Miss Ellen Vincent  National schoolmistress
         Groom      Horace Alfred       frmr. Weasenham hall
         Knox       William             shoemaker
         Mason      William             cottager
         Middleton  William Clarence    farmer
         Rayner     Henry               tailor and parish clerk
         Smith      William             vict. Ostrich Inn, and blacksmith
         Turner     John                grocer
 

CARRIER - John Chapman, to Plough, Lynn, and back, Tues., and to Bell, Fakenham, Thurs., through South and East Rainham

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July 2007