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Norfolk: Wretton
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William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1883
[Transcription copyright © Pat Newby]
WRETTON, a parish and scattered village, 1 mile W. of Stoke Ferry, and 6 miles E. by S. of Downham, is in Downham union and county court district, Clackclose hundred and petty sessional division, Lynn bankruptcy district, Downham polling district of West Norfolk, Fincham rural deanery, and Norfolk archdeaconry. It had 320 inhabitants in 1881, living on 1154 acres of land. It has a rateable value of £1822 15s. The land is mostly the property of A.H.R. Micklefield, Charles Bader, and Samuel Winfield, Esqs. Part of the parish is in Ravenham and Stoke-Wereham manors.
The CHURCH (All Saints) comprises nave, south aisle and porch, chancel, and square tower with two bells. It was restored and re-roofed in 1863, and contains a good oak screen. The perpetual curacy, certified at £10 2s. 6d., and augmented with £400 of Queen Anne's Bounty in 1751-2, is consolidated with Wereham. The tithes are commuted to £289 10s. per annum.
Here is a small Primitive Methodist Chapel.
The Poor's Land, 5A. 1R. 23P. of land, left by Jane Forby in 1711, and the Fuel Allotment are let annually by auction, at a rent varying from £15 to £20. The Fuel Allotment, 25A., awarded at the enclosure of the Common Fen, is used by the poor for cutting turf, &c. The poor have also 9s. 6d. a year in two rent-charges, left by unknown donors. An acre of 'parish land' was exchanged at the enclosure for a house and outbuildings, now occupied by paupers.
Here is a WALL LETTER-BOX, cleared at 6.10 p.m. week days and 11.10 a.m. Sundays, viâ Brandon, through Stoke Ferry, which is the nearest Money Order and Telegraph Office and Railway Station.
Bowers William farmer Brown Edward farmer Clark Beales coal dealer and farmer Cork Mr William English Miss Louisa shopkeeper Fitzjohn William gardener Freeman Samuel farmer Fuller Joseph fish dealer Hewing Henry victualler, Red Lion Hewson Henry V. coal dealer & frmr Jarred Michael blacksmith Johnson Frederick farm bailiff Lake Dennis tailor Pond Miss Sarah shopkeeper and pork butcher Powley Beales beerhouse Riches Henry carpenter, wheelwright and blacksmith Rickard Mr Walter Rickard Walter, jun. frmr. & bootmkr Smith George fish dealer Steward Mr James Tingey Henry cattle dealer Tingey John farmer White George grocer, draper, butcher and assistant overseer
See also the Wretton parish page.
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July 2015