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Norfolk: West Winch
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William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1845
[Transcription copyright © Pat Newby]WINCH (WEST) is a village of detached houses on and near the Setch turnpike, 3 miles S. of Lynn, comprising in its parish 415 inhabitants, and about 1,200 acres of land, partly in the low meadows and common on the east side of the river Nar. Lord Henry Cholmondeley is lord of the manor; but a great part of the soil belongs to twelve smaller freeholders, and a number of copyholders.
The CHURCH, (St. Mary,) has recently been thoroughly repaired, and the living is a rectory, valued in the King's Book at £9 13s. 4d., and now worth about £350 a year, having 38 acres of glebe, and a yearly rent awarded in lieu of tithes, in 1840. The patronage is in the Crown, and the Rev. Martin Hogge, M.A., of Southacre, is the incumbent. Here is no rectory-house, but D. Gurney, Esq., generously pays the rent of the curate's residence.
Here are three cottages, with small plots of land, and nine common-rights, belonging to the poor.
Here is a National School, built in 1837.
The Church Land, &c., comprises a cottage, 5A. of enclosed land, and a common-right, let for £16 a year. The church was new roofed in 1824, at the cost of £230.
The poor parishioners have three cottages, and 2A. of land called the Town Yards, let for £6, and nine commonrights, let for £18 a year. The rents are distributed in coals. In 1844, a Society was formed here, on an excellent plan, proposed by Mr. James Wake, for the purpose of hiring land and letting it out to the poor, on the allotment system.
Baker Mr. Joseph Bates James parish clerk Callaby Mrs. gardener Caston John Chamberlain Wm. Chapman William blacksmith Cooper John shoemaker Creak Mr. William (and Lynn) Eller Rev. George, M.A. curate Fayers George corn miller Fishlock John shopkeeper Fuller James victualler, Cock Gore John shoemkr. & vict. Sportsman Plumpton F. Self Lionel schoolmaster Silence Nicholas wheelwright Swatman Wm., Esq. collector of Lynn customs Thompson Jas. Wake Mr. Daniel Winks John victualler, Chequers Wright Mrs. Sarah Youngs Edw. FARMERS. Chapman Wm. Kippen Robert Cross James, (to D. Leete Wm. Chambers McPherson) Mark Benjamin Englestown Wm. Shickel John Fayers Martin Smith L.C. Fetheridge James Wake James, (& Godfrey Jeremiah registrar) Hammond Thos. Ward Thomas
See also the West Winch parish page.
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December 2008