Kelly's Directory of Norfolk 1933

[Transcription copyright © Pat Newby]

BRETTENHAM is a parish and village, connected with Rushford by a bridge over the river Thet, 4 miles east from Thetford station on the London and North Eastern Railway, in the Southern division of the county, Guiltcross and Shropham petty sessional division, Thetford rural district and county court district, Shropham hundred, rural deanery of Thetford, archdeaconry of Lynn and diocese of Norwich.

The original church, together with the rectory house, were destroyed by fire on 18th May, 1693. The present church of St. Andrew, built in 1852 at the expense of the Dowager Lady Buxton, is a small and beautiful edifice of stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts, vestry, south porch and a western tower containing 5 bells: the church was thoroughly restored and stained windows added by the late John Musker esq. in 1903: there are 180 sittings. The register dates from the year 1777.

The living is a rectory, consolidated by Order in Council with the adjoining benefice of Rushford, joint net yearly value £440, in the gift of the trustees of the late John Musker esq. and held since 1928 by the Rev. Waldegrave Mutrie Shepherd M.A. of Oxford University, hon. O.F. who resides at Thetford.

The trustees of the late John Musker esq. are lords of the manor and sole landowners. The soil is clay and sand; subsoil, clay. The land is chiefly in pasture. The area is 1,983 acres of land and 23 of water; the population of the civil parish in 1921 was 75, and of the ecclesiastical parish 239.

Letters through Thetford, nearest Money Order & Telegraph office

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

[Transcription copyright © Mike Bristow]

BRETTENHAM parish, in the vale of the river Thet, 4 miles E. of Thetford, has only one farm-house, a few cottages, 62 inhabitants, and 1888 acres of sandy land, occupied by John Palmer, and belonging to Sir W. B. Proctor, Bart., the lord of the manor and patron of the CHURCH, (St. Andrew,) which, with the rectory-house, was burnt down in 1693, but afterwards rebuilt, except the chancel, of which the arch of a large window still remains.

The Rectory, valued in K.B. at £5. 12s. 6d., and in 1831 at £200, is in the incumbency of the Rev. Thos. Lewis Jones.

Several Roman coins of Vespasian and other Emperors, have been dug up here, together with a few urns, which led Blomefield to suppose that the station, Combretonium, was here, and not at Brettenham, in Suffolk.

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William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1864

[Transcription copyright © Pat Newby]

BRETTENHAM parish, in the vale of the river Thet, 4 miles E. of Thetford, has only one farm house, a few cottages, 72 inhabitants, and 1981 acres of sandy land, all in one farm, occupied by Mr. John Palmer, and belonging to Sir Robert J. Buxton, Bart., the lord of the manor.

The rectory, valued in the King's Book at £5. 12s. 6d., and now worth £202 per annum, is in the patronage of the Bishop of Ely, and incumbency of the Rev. Fredk. D. Panter, of Rushford.

The Church (St. Andrew) was burnt down in 1693, along with the rectory house, but was shortly afterwards re-built; and in 1853 was thoroughly restored and beautified by the Buxton family. It is now a handsome edifice, comprising nave, chancel, north and south transepts, and tower with five bells. Several of the windows are enriched with stained glass, and the walls are ornamented with scriptural texts. The roof of the chancel is finely painted and gilt, and the floor is of polished tiles. The seats are neat open benches, and the font and pulpit are of carved stone.

Several Roman coins of Vespasian and other Emperors, have been dug up here, together with a few urns, which led Blomefield to suppose that the station, Combretonium, was here, and not at Brettenham, in Suffolk.

POST from Thetford.

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

[Transcription copyright © Juanita Hadwin]

BRETTENHAM parish is in Thetford union and county court district, Guiltcross and Shropham petty sessional division, Norwich bankruptcy district, Shropham hundred, Thetford polling district of South Norfolk, Rockland rural deanery and Norfolk archdeaconry. It had 93 inhabitants in 1881, and has a rateable value of £889. The parish lies in the vale of the river Thet, 4 miles E. of Thetford Railway Station, and 5 miles from Harling Road Station. It only contains one farm house, a few cottages, and 1881 acres of sandy land, all in one farm, occupied by Mr. John Fergusson, and belonging to Sir Robert J. Buxton, Bart., M.P., the lord of the manor. Several Roman coins of Vespasian and other Emperors have been dug up here, together with a few urns, which led Blomefield to suppose that the station, Combretonium, was here, and not at Brettenham, in Suffolk.

The CHURCH (St. Andrew) was burnt down in 1693, along with the rectory house, but was shortly afterwards re-built; and in 1853 was restored and beautified by the Buxton family. It is now a handsome edifice, comprising nave, chancel, north and south transepts, and tower with five bells. Several of the windows are enriched with stained glass, and the walls are ornamented with scriptural texts. The roof of the chancel is finely painted and gilt, and the floor is of polished tiles. The seats are neat open benches, and the font and pulpit are of carved stone.

The rectory, valued in the King's Book at £5 12s. 6d., now annexed to Rushford, is in the patronage of Sir Robt. Jacob Buxton, Bart., and incumbency of the Rev. Edward Kedington Bennett, D.C.L., who resides at Rushford. The value of the joint benefice is £340.

The school is at Rushford.

POST from Thetford, which is the nearest Money Order and Telegraph Office, arrives at 8 a.m., despatched at 7 p.m. It is proposed to erect a Pillar Box here.

         Fergusson  Jno.        frmr. land & estate agt. Brettenham manor
         Rayner     James       parish clerk and sexton
         Wyatt      Thomas      farm bailiff to John Fergusson
 

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Tithes

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

BROTHERCROSS HUNDRED

Is one of the smallest divisions of Norfolk, being of an oblong figure, only eight miles in length from north to south, and five miles in breadth. It is bounded on the east by North Greenhoe; on the south by Gallow; on the west by Smithdon Hundred; and on the north by the Ocean; where it is terminated by an insulated ridge of sand hills, called the Scald Heads, occupied only by rabbits, and having near it a prolific bed of excellent oysters.

This Hundred is generally a fertile and picturesque country, and forms, with 18 parishes in Gallow Hundred, the Deanery of Burnham.

It contains only nine PARISHES, viz:- the six Burnhams, North and South Creake, and Waterden, which are in Docking Union, (see page 633 [this is Smithdon Hundred],) and comprise 4,382 inhabitants, and 19,169 acres of land, assessed to the County rate, in 1843, at the annual value of £25,876; and to the property tax, at £20,780 in 1815, and at £25,109 in 1842.

They are all in Docking Police Division, except Waterden, which is in that of Briningham.

Petty Sessions are held at Burnham-Westgate, on the last Saturday of every month; and Mr. Thos. Garwood is clerk to the magistrates.

Brothercross and Gallow Hundreds, were possessed by the Crown, till Henry I. gave them to Wm. Earl of Warren and Surrey, to be held of the castle of Norwich, paying two marks yearly.

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Burnham Deepdale
Burnham Norton
Burnham Overy
Burnham Thorpe
Burnham Ulph and Sutton
Burnham Westgate or Burnham Market
North Creake
South Creake
Waterden

The above is a transcription of page 662.

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• Other hundred descriptions from White's 1845.

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

CLAVERING HUNDRED

Lies at the south-east extremity of the county, -- being bounded on the west by Loddon Hundred, on the north by the river Yare, and on the south and east by the river Waveney, which divides it from Suffolk, but it has a detached member, encompassed by Loddon and Henstead Hundreds, at the distance of 4 or 5 miles, and containing the three parishes of Burgh-Apton, Brooke and Howe.

Exclusive of this insulated member, it averages from 6 to 8 miles in length and breadth, except at the north-east end, where it is crossed by the Norwich and Lowestoft Ship Canal, and terminated by a narrow peninsular slip, three miles in length, ending at the confluence of the navigable rivers -- Yare and Waveney. The soil is generally rich and fertile, though a great part of it is in wet marshes.

The Deanery of Brooke, in the Archdeaconry of Norfolk, comprehends all the parishes in the Hundreds of Clavering, Loddon, and Henstead.

Petty Sessions for this, and Loddon Hundred, are held at the Swan Inn, Loddon, (see page 796. [description of Loddon Hundred]) The following enumeration of the 20 parishes of Clavering Hundred, shews their population in 1841, the annual value of their lands and buildings, as assessed to the County Rate in 1843, and their territorial extent, in assessable acres:-

[There is more information about individual parishes]

* Heckingham return included 138 persons in the Union Workhouse.
+ This Hundred had 6611 inhabitants in 1831. Its annual value, as assessed to the property tax, was £43,318, in 1815, and £53,486, in 1842. It is in Loddon Police Division.

LODDON and CLAVERING UNION comprises all the 40 parishes of Loddon and Clavering Hundreds, and also Yelverton, in Henstead Hundred. These 41 parishes were incorporated, for the support of their poor, by act of parliament, in 1763, when they built a large House of Industry at Heckingham, with room for about 500 paupers.

This was adopted as the Union Workhouse, in 1836, when it was much injured by fire, supposed to have been occasioned by an incendiary. It was repaired, altered, and enlarged, at the cost of £3145, and has now room for 600 paupers, but it has seldom more than half that number, and in summer only about 150.

The Union comprises an area of 89 square miles, and had 14,472 inhabitants, in 1841, of whom 7121 were males, and 7351 females. The average annual expenditure of its 41 parishes, from 1832 to 1835, was £6494. In 1838, it was £4474; in 1839, £5230; in 1842, £4348; and for the quarter ending Michaelmas, 1844, £1872.

J. Kerrich, Esq., is chairman of the Board of Guardians; James Copeman, Esq., of Loddon, is union clerk and superintendent registrar; Mr. Wm. Hoddy, of Loddon, is registrar of marriages; the Rev. W. Hobson is chaplain; Messrs. J.H.Wooltorton and E. Easter are the relieving officers; and Mr. John Brigham and wife are master and matron of the Workhouse.

Five surgeons are employed by the Union, and the average weekly cost per week, per head, of the in-door poor, is 2s 4d. for food, and 5½d. for clothing.

Notes

Some placenames in the transcription (of pages 804 to 805) above are given below together with their standard spelling :-
Burgh-Apton/Bergh Apton, Gillingham All Sts/Gillingham All Saints, Thorp-next-Hadsco/Thorpe next Haddiscoe

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• Other hundred descriptions from White's 1845.

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

DISS HUNDRED

Is so called from its thriving market town, and is nearly a square district, about seven miles in length and breadth, bounded on the west by Guiltcross; on the north, by Depwade; on the east, by Earsham Hundred; and on the south by the river Waveney, which divides it from Suffolk.

It is a well wooded and fertile district, generally champaign, but rising in some places in gentle undulations, and having mostly a strong loamy soil, which is generally moist, owing to a substratum of impervious blue clay, lying at the depth of from one to two feet.

Diss and Earsham were anciently one Hundred, and they still form the Deanery of Redenhall, in the Archdeaconry of Norfolk. Diss Hundred holds its Petty Sessions at the town of Diss, on the first and last Mondays of every month; and Mr. John Muskett is clerk to the magistrates.

The following enumeration of its 16 parishes shews their population in 1841, the annual value of their lands and buildings, as assessed to the county rate in 1843, and their territorial extent.

[There is more information about individual parishes]

+ Frenze and Thorpe Parva are united with Scole, or Osmondiston, for the support of their poor; and their areas and annual value are included with Scole.

Bressingham, Fersfield, Roydon, Shelfanger, and Winfarthing, are in GUILTCROSS UNION, (see page 421, [this is in Guiltcross Hundred description]) and all the other parishes are in DEPWADE UNION. (See page 699. [this is in Depwade Hundred description])

! The population of Diss Hundred, in 1831, was 9300. Its annual value, as assessed to the property tax, was £37,473, in 1815, and £49,296 in 1842. It is in Long Stratton Police Division.

Notes

Some placenames in the transcription (of pages 710 to 711) above are given below together with their standard spelling :-
Tivetshall St. Mgt/Tivetshall St Margaret

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

SOUTH ERPINGHAM HUNDRED

[Transcription copyright © Richard Johns]

Is a highly cultivated district, finely interspersed with woods, streams, villages, churches, and many handsome seats. It is of a crooked spiral figure, about 16 miles in length, exclusive of a narrow strip at its northern extremity, terminating at West Beckham; and varying from 9 to less than 5 miles in breadth, extending to within 3 miles of the ocean. It is bounded on the south by Taverham, on the west by Eynesford and Holt, on the north by North Erpingham, and on the east by Tunstead Hundred. The river Bure flows through it, from Corpusty to Belaugh, receiving in its course many tributary streams, watering a fertile valley, which in some places is broken into bold and picturesque acclivities. In 1773, an act was obtained to make the Bure navigable from Coltishall up to Aylsham, a market town, nearly in the centre of this Hundred, which forms, in ecclesiastical matters, the Deanery of Ingworth, in the Archdeaconry of Norwich.

PETTY SESSIONS, for the whole Hundred, are held at the Black Boy, Aylsham, every Tuesday; and Mr. Fredk. Roe is clerk to the magistrates. The fee of it remained in the Crown till 1226, when Henry III. granted it to Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent, at which time the Hundred Court was held at Cawston Park Gate.

It contains 38 parishes, of which the following is an enumeration, shewing their population in 1841, the annual value of their lands and buildings, as assessed to the County Rate in 1843, and their territorial extent, in assessable acres.

[There is more information about individual parishes]

All the above parishes are in Aylsham Union, except Baconsthorpe and West Beckham, which are in Erpingham Union, and Booton, which is in St. Faith's Union. All are in Aylsham Police Division, except Belaugh, which is in Dereham Division. The population of the Hundred, in 1831, was 14,898. Its annual value, as assessed to the PROPERTY TAX, was £56,205, in 1815, and £85,527, in 1842.

* @ AYLSHAM UNION comprises 35 parishes in South Erpingham, and 11 parishes in Eynesford Hundred. (See page 344. [this is in Eynesford Hundred description]) These 46 parishes comprise an area of 106 square miles; and in 1841, had 20,056 inhabitants, of whom 9869 were males and 10,187 females. Their average annual expenditure, during the three years preceding the formation of the Union, was £20,391; but in 1838, it was only £9652. For the quarter ending Dec. 1844, it was £2569.

The Union Workhouses are at Buxton and Oulton, both of which are old Houses of Industry; that at Buxton, 4 miles S.S.E. of Aylsham, being built before the year 1800, for nine incorporated parishes, (marked * in the foregoing table;) and that at Oulton, 3½ miles N.W. of Aylsham, being altered in 1804, as a Workhouse for the six parishes marked @ in the foregoing table.

After the formation of the Union, in 1836, these houses were altered and enlarged, at the cost of about £1200. That at Buxton has room for about 400 paupers, and that at Oulton for about 100. Only the aged and infirm are sent to the latter, where the average weekly cost of each inmate, for food and clothing, is 2s 11.; but at Buxton it is 2s. 0½d. The Union has two chaplains and eight surgeons; and Mr. Wm. Hill, of Marsham, is Union Clerk and Supt. Registrar.

The Masters of the Workhouses are, Mr. Thomas Potter, at Buxton, and Mr. E. F. Barnaby, at Oulton. Mr. J. Wright and Mr. A. Sands are the district registrars and relieving officers. In the months of Oct. Nov. and Dec. 1844, no fewer than 18 persons died in this Union, each of them above 80, and three of them above 90 years of age.

Notes

Some placenames in the transcription (of pages 450 to 451) above are given below together with their standard spelling :-
Barningham(Ltl.)/Little Barningham, Beckham (West)/West Beckham, Burgh St. Mary/Burgh next Aylsham, Hautboys (Great)/Great Hautboys (Great Hautbois), Ltl. Hautboys/Little Hautboys (Little Hautbois), Stratton-Straw-less/Stratton Strawless, Swanton Abbot/Swanton Abbott, Thwaite/Thwaite All Saints

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• Other hundred descriptions from White's 1845.

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

EAST AND WEST FLEGG HUNDREDS.

EAST AND WEST FLEGG, two of the smallest Hundreds of Norfolk, are on the sea coast, at the east end of the county, and are nearly of equal extent, containing together about 30,000 acres of land, stretching nearly eleven miles northward from the Borough of Yarmouth, and forming, in ecclesiastical affairs, the DEANERY OF FLEGG, to which the DEANERY OF YARMOUTH was perpetually united in the year 1345; so that the Archdeacon's visitations for the whole district, have since been held in Yarmouth.

Petty Sessions, for the two Hundreds, are held on the first and third Tuesday of every month, at Rollesby and Yarmouth. Mr. S. B. Cory is clerk to the magistrates. Both Hundreds are in Ludham Police Division.

Of the twenty-five villages and parishes in East and West Flegg, no fewer than fourteen of them have the Saxon termination, by, signifying a dwelling.

They were all incorporated for parochial purposes by an act of the 15th of George the Third; and a HOUSE OF INDUSTRY, for the reception of the poor of both Hundreds, was erected at Rollesby, in 1776 and enlarged in 1818 and 1834, so that it will now accommodate 400 paupers, though the number of inmates seldom amounts to 200, and in summer is generally less than 100. They are employed in spade husbandry, and the manufacture of rope, twine, fishing-nets, sacking, &c. This large workhouse, for a thinly populated district, is built in the form of the letter H, so as to admit of a complete separation of the two sexes.

It is under the control of 48 guardians, chosen yearly, and a number of directors, consisting of all the magistrates and freeholders of £200 per annum, resident in the 20 incorporated parishes, which, in the quarter ending April, 1844, expended £894, of which £218 was for the maintenance of in-door paupers, and £465 for out-door relief. The number in the house during the same quarter was 156, and the number of out-door paupers 796. The dietary system now in use has been introduced by the Poor Law Commissioners, who have here no further authority than the New Poor Law gives them in similar incorporations.

The Rev. Wm. Lucas is chairman, and William Rising, Esq., vice-chairman of the Board of Directors and Guardians, to whom Mr. Samuel B. Cory, of Yarmouth, is clerk. Mr John Mountseer is superintendent registrar and master of the Workhouse; the Rev. J. Morton is chaplain, and Messrs. W. and J. Cooper are the surgeons. Mr. W. Cooper is also registrar of marriages for both hundreds. The registrars of births and deaths are the said Mr. W. Cooper, for West Flegg; and Mr. Robert S. Beare, for East Flegg.

EAST FLEGG Hundred, the most eastern division of Norfolk, is of an irregular triangular figure, extending west and north from Yarmouth, and bounded on the east by the German Ocean, and on its other sides by the rivers Yare and Bure, and the Hundred of West Flegg; from which latter, it is separated for a considerable extent by a chain of marshland lakes or pools, called the "Broads," and forming a small river called the "Muck Fleet," which flows westward to the Bure; indeed both the Flegg Hundreds are nearly insulated with salt and fresh water. East Flegg extends about five miles along the coast northward, from Yarmouth, and about seven miles westward, on the north side of the river Bure, which divides it from Walsham Hundred.

WEST FLEGG is bounded by East Flegg on the south, Walsham Hundred on the west, Happing Hundred on the north, and the Ocean on the east. It extends about 3½ miles along the coast, and 7½ miles inland; and is nearly surrounded by marshes; but its interior rises in bold and well cultivated swells. Mr. Young, in his "Farmer's Tour," recommends the method of farming practised here; and even Camden extols the soil as being fruitful in corn, and says that here "the Danes seem to have made their first settlement, both because it was nearest their landing, and pretty well fortified by nature; being almost surrounded by water."

An Act of Parliament is about to be obtained for improving the drainage of the low marshes in this and the adjoining Hundreds.

There were formerly 26 Parish Churches in these Hundreds, but seven of them were dilapidated many years ago, and their cures annexed to the present nineteen parishes, of which the following is an enumeration, showing the population of each in 1841, the annual value of their land and buildings, as assessed to the County Rate, in 1843, and their territorial extent.

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* Runham includes an extra-parochial house.

+ Rollesby included 73 persons in the Workhouse, in July 1843.

@ East Somerton church is in ruins, and the parish annexed to Winterton; and Thurne is a township annexed to Ashby parish.

When the census was taken, in 1841, about 200 fishermen were absent, viz., 131 belonging to Winterton, 20 to Caistor, 17 to Hemsby, 16 to Ormsby St. Margaret, and 8 to Ormsby St. Michael.

The annual value of East Flegg, as assessed to the PROPERTY TAX, was £18,617, in 1815, and £28,691, in 1842. That of West Flegg was £18,322, in 1815, and £32,875 in 1842.

Notes

Some placenames in the transcription (of pages 292 to 294) above are given below together with their standard spelling :-
Burgh St. Mgt & My/Burgh St. Margaret, Caistor-next-Yarmouth/Caistor on Sea, Ormsby St. Mar-garet/Ormesby St. Margaret, Scratby/Ormesby St Margaret, Ormsby St. Michl./Ormesby St Michael, Repps-cum Bastk/Repps with Bastwick, Somerton East/East Somerton, Somerton West/West Somerton

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FREEBRIDGE-LYNN HUNDRED.

Freebridge-Lynn, one of the largest divisions of Norfolk, lies at the west end of the county, and extends from 12 to 15 miles in length and breadth, stretching east, north, and south, from the borough of King's Lynn. It extends southward to Setch and Pentney, eastward to Castle Acre, Massingham, and Harpley, and northward to Dersingham and Anmer; and lies east of Marshland, with which it was formerly comprehended under the name of "Freebridge Hundred and a Half," an appellation said to be derived from St. Germain's Bridge being toll-free, and then the only bridge that crossed the Great Ouse river, between the two districts, which, in ecclesiastical affairs, constitute the Deanery of Lynn, in the Archdeaconry of Norwich.

Freebridge-Lynn is bounded on the north by Smithdon Hundred; on the east by Gallow and Launditch Hundreds; on the south by the river Nar and the parish of Watlington; and on the west by the Borough of Lynn, the Great Ouse river, and that broad estuary of the ocean, called The Wash, or Metaris AEstiarium, which receives on this side the waters of the Ouse from Lynn, and on the other, the river Nene from Wisbech. The mouths of these rivers are distant nearly ten miles from each other, and the coasts of Norfolk and Lincolnshire, branching from them in a northerly direction, form the largest bay on the eastern side of England, except the estuary of the Thames; but at low water, immense tracts of sand and silt are left bare, and many thousand acres have, at various periods, been recovered from the influx of the tides.

On the Lincolnshire side of the bay, about 15,000 acres have been warped and cultivated since the construction of the embanked road across that part of it called Cross Key's Wash; and an Act of Parliament is about to be obtained for constructing a new outfall for the rivers Nene and Ouse, and reclaiming from the Norfolk side of the Wash 32,000 acres of valuable land, more than half of which will adjoin this Hundred, and the rest will be added to Freebridge Marshland. This is part of the grand scheme, noticed at page 517 [History of King's Lynn section]. Freebridge-Lynn affords a pleasing contrast to the flat district of Marshland on the opposite side of the Ouse, having an undulated surface, rising, in picturesque swells, from the marshes on the coast, and on the rivers Ouse, Nar, and several smaller streams. The soil is of different kinds, being in some parts rich and loamy, and in others a light steril sand; indeed, the latter prevails either on the surface or as a substratum, throughout the whole district, and much of it is of a whitish colour, well adapted for the manufacture of glass, for which purpose large quantities are regularly shipped at Lynn. Many of the commons have been enclosed during the last forty years, but there still remain here several extensive sandy heaths, in a state of nature, or partially planted; and one of them, between Castle-Rising and Dersingham, forms a prolific rabbit warren of 1,900 acres; and the abrupt acclivities by which it rises from the marshes, bear evident marks of having been, at some distant period, the boundary of the ocean, the tides of which once flowed up to the decayed borough of Castle-Rising, from whence a small but once navigable stream still flows westward to Lynn Deeps.

Indeed, marine productions are found in the gravel pits, in various parts of the Hundred; and the rounded cobbles, pebbles, flints, and other stones got in them, for the reparation of the roads, are similar to those thrown up by the tides, on the beach near Hunstanton, Brancaster, and Wells. At the Norman Conquest, this Hundred was a fee of the Crown, but was granted by the Conqueror to his butler, William de Albani.

The Hundred Court was anciently held at Flitcham, on a remarkable hill or tumulus, surrounded with a ditch, in the form of a square; but it was afterwards held under an oak tree, at Gaywood, whence it was removed to Fitton Oak, in the parish of Wiggenhall St. Germain, where it was continued till 1710, when the Duke of Norfolk was lord paramount.

Petty Sessions are now held at Hillington, on the 1st and 3rd Mondays in every month, before the Magistrates of the Hundred, to whom B. Aldham and Son, of Lynn, are clerks.

The Hundred contains many large and well built villages, and 34 parishes, of which the following is an enumeration, shewing their population in 1841, the annual value of their land and buildings, as assessed to the County Rate in 1843, and their territorial extent, exclusive of wastes and roads.

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* Castle-Rising is an ancient disfranchised Borough, and a Peculiar Jurisdiction, including the three parishes of Roydon and North and South Wootton.

+ North Runction includes Hardwick hamlet, which has 23 souls.

% Gayton included 57 persons in the Union Workhouse, in July 1841.

@ In 1831, the total population of the Hundred was 12,227. It is mostly in Castle-Acre Police Division.

The Annual Value of the Hundred, as assessed to the Property Tax, was £69,631 in 1815; and £88,422 in 1842.

FREEBRIDGE-LYNN UNION comprises all the parishes in the foregoing Table, except Anmer and Dersingham, which are in Docking Union. These 32 parishes had 12,580 inhabitants in 1841, and extend over an area of 111 square miles. Their average annual expenditure for the relief of the poor, &c. during the three years preceding the formation of the Union, was £8,952. In 1838, it was £5,149; and in 1839, £5,369. These sums include salaries, &c. In 1842, the sums expended solely for the relief of in and out door poor, amounted to £3,833.

The UNION WORKHOUSE is at Gayton, and was built in 1836, at the cost of £5,146. It has room for 150 paupers, but has seldom more than from 70 to 100. Thirty-six guardians are elected yearly, viz: two each for Castle-Acre, Gaywood, Grimston, and Great Massingham; and one for each of the other parishes.

B. Aldham & Son, are Clerks to the Board of Guardians; W. C. Hotson, Esq., is Auditor; Mr. John Barrett, Governor of the Workhouse; J. G. Etches, of Gaywood, and W. R. Dawson, of Leziate, Relieving Officers; and Messrs. J. Headley, R. B. Overton, T. Bullen, J. B. Whiting, and C.B. Rose, Surgeons. Boys Aldham, Esq., of Lynn, is SUPERINTENDENT REGISTRAR; and Mr. J. G. Etches, of Gaywood, is REGISTRAR OF MARRIAGES. The Districts and Registrars of Births and Deaths are, Castle-Rising, J. G. Etches; Gayton, J. Headley; Hillington, J. Fisher; and Middleton, James Wake.

Notes

Some placenames in the transcription (of pages 583 to 585) above are given below together with their standard spelling :-
Bilney (West)/West Bilney, Massingham (Great)/Great Massingham, Massingham (Little)/Little Massingham, Newton (West)/West Newton, Roydon/Roydon (near King's Lynn), Runction (North)/North Runcton, Walton (East)/East Walton, Winch (East)/East Winch, Winch (West)/West Winch, Wolverton/Wolferton, Wootton (North)/North Wootton, Wootton (South)/South Wootton

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GALLOW HUNDRED

Is a tract of rich soil, and highly diversified country, extending 15 miles in length from east to west, and varying from 8 to 5 miles in breadth; being bounded on the north by Brothercross, North-Greenhoe, and Holt Hundreds; on the east by Eynesford; on the south by Launditch; and on the west by Freebridge-Lynn and Smithdon Hundreds.

It is watered by the Wensum, and several brooks, which form the source of that river, flowing eastward through a fine vale, by East Rudham, Fakenham, Great Ryburgh, &c.; and from Little Snoring, Barsham, &c., another stream flows northward through the adjoining Hundred to the sea, near Stiffkey.

Henry I. gave Gallow and Brothercross to the Earl of Warren and Surrey, who then held Norwich Castle. Gallow is supposed to have its name from a hill near Dunton, where the Hundred Court was held.

It is in Docking and Briningham Police Divisions; and contains 31 parishes, of which 18 are in Burnham Deanery, and 13 in Toftrees Deanery; the former in the Archdeaconry of Norfolk, and the latter in that of Norwich. Petty Sessions are held at the Crown Inn, Fakenham, every alternate Saturday. Mr. John Overton is clerk to the magistrates.

The following enumeration of the 31 parishes shews their population in 1841, the annual value of their lands and buildings, as assessed to the County Rates in 1843, and their territorial extent.

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* Fakenham return includes 8 persons in Alethorpe, which is extra- parochial, and has 237 acres, assessed at £260 per annum.

+ Gallow Hundred had 9,378 souls, in 1831. It was assessed to the Property Tax at £54,190 in 1815; and at £67,868 in 1842.

UNIONS:- All the above parishes are in WALSINGHAM UNION, except Bagthorpe, Barmer, Broomsthorpe, New Houghton, East and West Rudham, and Syderstone, which are in Docking Union.(see page 633. [this is in Smithdon Hundred description])

Notes

Some placenames in the transcription (of pages 646 to 647) above are given below together with their standard spelling :-
Barsham (East)/East Barsham, Barsham (North)/North Barsham, Barsham (West)/West Barsham, Dunton & Doughton/Dunton cum Doughton, Fulmodeston-with-Croxton/Fulmodeston, Heloughton/Helhoughton, Houghton (New)/Houghton or New Houghton, Rainham (East)/East Raynham or Raynham East, Rainham (South)/South Raynham or Raynham South, Rainham (West)/West Raynham or Raynham West, Rudham (East)/East Rudham, Rudham (West)/West Rudham, Ryburgh Magna/Great Ryburgh, Ryburgh Parva/Little Ryburgh, Snoring (Little)/Little Snoring

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NORTH GREENHOE HUNDRED

Is of an irregular oblong figure, extending nine miles in length along the sea-coast, and averaging seven miles in breadth from north to south, -- being bounded on the east by Holt Hundred; on the south by Gallow; and on the west by Brothercross.

The soil is generally light, but well cultivated, and the face of the country is beautifully diversified, and seen to great advantage from Great Snoring church, where the prospect to the north is highly picturesque, and is terminated by the ocean. A substratum of fine marl is found in almost every part of it, and the whole district abounds in all sorts of game.

It is watered by the river which flows through a fertile vale from Snoring to the ocean, near Stiffkey. Its name is supposed to be a corruption of Green-hill, - the Hundred court being anciently held on such an eminence. The royalties of the whole Hundred, with the lordship of Wighton, were possessed by the Crown in the reigns of Edward the Confessor, and William the Conqueror, but were subsequently granted in fee to various families, though a court of the Queen's Duchy of Lancaster is still held at Wighton.

Petty Sessions are held at Little Walsingham, on the first Monday of every month; and at Wells on the nearest middle Monday of every month. The magistrates' clerk is Mr. Thos. Garwood, of Wells. Little Walsingham has also Quarter Sessions.

The whole Hundred, except Cockthorpe and Field-Dalling, is in the Deanery of Walsingham, and comprises sixteen parishes, of which the following is an enumeration, shewing their population in 1841, the annual value of their land and buildings, as assessed to the County Rate in 1843, and their territorial extent, in assessable acres:--

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All are in Briningham Police Division.

* Great Snoring included 81 persons in the Union Workhouse; Little Walsingham, 50 in the House of Correction; and Wells, 49 in Vessels. From Hindringham, 63 persons had emigrated to Canada since 1831.

The Annual Value of the Hundred, as assessed to the Property Tax, was £37,102 in 1815; and £45,413 in 1842.

WALSINGHAM UNION comprises all the 16 parishes in North Greenhoe Hundred; 24 parishes in Gallow Hundred, (see page 647; [this is in Gallow Hundred description]) and 10 parishes in Holt Hundred, which see. These 50 parishes extend over an area of 121 square miles, or 72,493 acres; and had in 1841, 20,960 inhabitants, of whom 10,121 were males, and 10,839 females.

Their average annual expenditure from 1832 to 1835, was £21,497; but since the formation of the Union, it has been reduced to about half that sum. The UNION WORKHOUSE is at Great Snoring, and was finished in 1838, at the cost of £5,903. It has room for 300 inmates; but had only 81 in July 1841, and 169 in January, 1845.

Mr. John Overton, of Fakenham, is Union Clerk and Supt. Registrar; and Mr. Robt. Platten is master of the Workhouse. The relieving officers are - Mr. Henry Scales, of Fakenham; and Mr. Thos. Webb, of Wells. The Rev. R. Leeder is chaplain. Seven surgeons are employed by the Union, and among them the three following are Registrars of Births and Deaths, viz:- Mr. G. Damant, for Fakenham District; Mr. C. Adcock, for Walsingham District; and Mr. J. Young, for Wells District.

Notes

Some placenames in the transcription (of pages 668 to 669) above are given below together with their standard spelling :-
Houghton-in-Dale/Houghton St Giles, Snoring (Great)/Great Snoring, Walsingham (Great)/Great Walsingham, Walsingham (Little)/Little Walsingham, (Warham) St. Mary/Warham St. Mary

Quarles has "extra Par." after it which means Extra Parochial.

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GRIMSHOE HUNDRED

Is about 14 miles in length, and varies from 6 to 8 in breadth, bounded on the south by the Little Ouse river, which divides it from Suffolk; on the east of[sic] Shropham and Wayland, on the north by South-Greenhoe, and on the west by Clackclose Hundred. It is intersected and partly bounded on the north by the river Wissey, which, like the Ouse, is navigable for small craft. Its soil is chiefly sand, upon a substratum of chalk and flint; and much of it is still in open sheep walks and heaths, abounding in rabbits, except the western end, which forms part of the marshes and fens of the Great Bedford Level. (See page 608[in the Clackclose Hundred description].) The rabbits from the various warrens here, are, among epicures, distinguished for their delicious flavour, and still known by the name of Methwold or "Muel rabbits," though the large heath in that extensive parish was enclosed and cultivated in the early part of the present century.

Gun flints and whiting are manufactured at Brandon, a market town, on the Suffolk side of the Little Ouse, and at the south-east extremity of Grimshoe is the Borough of Thetford. The whole Hundred is comprised (together with South-Greenhoe,) in the Deanery of Cranwich, and archdeaconry of Norfolk; and its Petty Sessions are held on the first and third Mondays of every month, at the Crown Inn, Mundford. Mr. Robert Sewell, of Swaffham, is clerk to the Magistrates.

From its number of tumuli, it is supposed to have been a great seat of war between the Saxons and Danes. On the west-side of Weeting, is a bank and ditch, extending several miles, called the Fen-dyke, or Foss; and about two miles east of that village, on a rising ground, is a large Encampment, of a semi-circular form, comprising about twelve acres, and having numerous deep pits, dug in the quincunx form, and capable of concealing a large army from the view of persons passing the neighbouring roads. It has near it a long tumulus, and is commonly called Grime's Graves, from some Danish or Saxon general, who possessed and gave name to this Hundred, which contains 16 parishes, of which the following is an enumeration, shewing their population in 1841, the annual value of their lands and buildings, as assessed to the County Rate in 1843, and their territorial extent, in assessable acres.

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* Northwold includes Whittington hamlet, which has 178 souls.

+ Including wastes, this Hundred comprises more than 60,000 acres. Its population, in 1831, was 6380. Its annual value, as assessed to the property tax, was £40,244, in 1815, and £45,372 in 1842. The total annual value for 1842, includes £84 for a small part of Brandon, assessed with this Hundred.

UNIONS.- Buckenham-Tofts, Colveston, Ickburgh, and Stanford, are in Swaffham Union (see page 372 [in South Greenhoe Hundred description];) and all the other 12 parishes in this Hundred are in Thetford Union. It is in Stoke Ferry and Hockham Police Divisions.

Notes

Some placenames in the transcription (of page 391) above are given below together with their standard spelling :-
Croxton/Croxton (near Thetford), Feltwell St. Mry/Feltwell St. Mary, Hockwold with Wilton/Hockwold cum Wilton, Munnford/Mundford , Tofts (West)/West Tofts

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HAPPING HUNDRED

[Transcription copyright © Peter Green]

Is of a triangular figure, stretching about eleven miles along the seashore, from Winterton Ness to Walcot, and bounded on the south by West Flegg and Walsham Hundreds; and on the west by Tunstead Hundred; two of its boundaries being about eleven miles, and the other nine miles in length.

The villages are mostly surrounded by low marshes, intersected by numerous broads, or lakes, connected by rivulets and drains, flowing southward, into two channels, to the Bure and the Thurne, and opening a direct navigation to Yarmouth for boats of 14 tons, from almost every part of this Hundred, the greater portion of which was formerly watery meadows, open commons, and extensive rabbit-warrens; but the grounds are now well drained, and all enclosed, except a few small warrens, and several allotments awarded for the use of the poor. The drain waters are pumped from the lower levels by a number of wind-mills. Happing Hundred has suffered considerably from the encroachments of the ocean, though it appears now to be pretty well protected by the high ridges of sand-hills drifted on the coast, and the occasional assistance of a few men employed to repair the breaches.

This Hundred forms, with Tunstead, the Deanery of Waxton or Waxham, in the Archdeaconry of Norwich, and was united with that Hundred, (except North Walsham,) for the support of the poor, in the 25th of Geo. III., when a House of Industry was erected, for the incorporated parishes, at Smallburgh. (See page 474; and Petty Sessions, page 475. [Both in Tunstead Hundred])

Happing Hundred contains 16 parishes, of which the following is an enumeration, shewing their population in 1841, their annual value, as assessed to the County Rate, in 1843, and their territorial extent, in assessable acres.

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* Ingham, Palling and Stalham returns, included 100 persons attending Ingham stock fair; but 40 fishermen were absent from Palling.

+ The area of this Hundred, including roads, wastes and "broads" is about 30,000 acres. Its population, in 1831, was 6446. Its annual value, as assessed to the property tax was £26,101, in 1815, and £48,818, in 1842. It is in Ludham Police Division.

Notes

Some placenames in the transcription (of page 767) above are given below together with their standard spelling :-
Eccles/Eccles by the Sea, Hempstead/Hempstead near Stalham, Palling/Sea Palling, Ruston (East)/East Ruston, Walcot/Walcott

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HOLT HUNDRED

Is a highly diversified district, presenting some of the boldest scenery in Norfolk; though next the ocean it has a flat shore and a broad tract of low salt marshes. It is about nine miles in length and breadth, except at its southern extremity, where it is only six miles broad: being bounded, on the north by the sea; on the east, by North and South Erpingham; on the south, by Eynesford; and on the west, by North Greenhoe.

The town of Holt stands on a broad and flat eminence, extending eastward, between Kelling and Hunworth, to Upper Sherringham and Aylmerton, and formerly presenting a wide waste of brown heath, over which the north and north-east winds, unchecked in their course from the ocean, blew with chilling violence; but this bleakness has been much ameliorated, since the Holt and other enclosures, by the extensive plantations of H. and R. H. Gurney, Esqrs., and those of W. H. C. Hardy, Esq., and several other landowners.

Many handsome residences have been built, during the present century, in various parts of the Hundred, which is intersected by the whole length of the small river Glaven, which passes, by a very circuituous course of more than thirteen miles, to the ocean, near Cley, after watering a picturesque and well-wooded valley, and supplying four water-mills and two fine lakes, one of which, (a little below the river's source, near Bodham,) is used as a decoy for wild ducks, which, with geese and other aquatic birds, frequent this coast in considerable numbers.

This Hundred, except Swanton-Novers, forms the Deanery of Holt, together with Field-Dalling and Cockthorpe, in North Greenhoe.

It contains 28 parishes of which the following is an enumeration, shewing their population in 1841, the annual value of their lands and buildings, as assessed to the County Rate in 1843, and their territorial extent, in assessable acres.

Petty Sessions are held at the Feathers Inn, Holt, every Saturday; and Mr. J. Ransom is clerk to the magistrates.

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* The ten parishes marked thus * are in WALSINGHAM UNION, (see p. 669;[this is North Greenhoe Hundred section]) Melton Constable and Brinton support their poor under a local act; and the other 14 parishes are in ERPINGHAM UNION, which see. They are all in Briningham Police Division.

+ The decrease in the population of Bale, Melton Constable, Swanton-Novers, and some other parishes in this Hundred, is attributed to a number of families, (chiefly paupers,) having emigrated to America, in 1835 and '6. The population of Holt Hundred, in 1831, was 10,416; and its annual value, as assessed to the property tax, was £32,459, in 1815, and £55,893, in 1842.

@ 60 seamen and boys were absent from Blakeney when the census was taken.

Notes

Some placenames in the transcription (of pages 733 to 734) above are given below together with their standard spelling :-
Hempstead/Hempstead by Holt

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LAUNDITCH HUNDRED

[In the original this is LAUNDICTH]

Is of an irregular, quadrangular figure, averaging about 12 miles in length and breadth, and bounded on the north by Gallow, on the east by Eynesford, on the south by Mitford and South Greenhoe, and on the west by Freebridge-Lynn Hundred.

It is a highly cultivated district, rising in some places in bold and picturesque swells, with many thriving plantations and handsome mansions, and watered by the Wensum, the Nar, and several smaller streams, which rise within its limits. It takes its name from a long ditch and bank extending from Wendling-car to the low lands near Mileham, and supposed to have been made for the purpose of carrying off the drain water. At the point where this ditch crosses the Norwich road, the Hundred court was anciently held.

Launditch, (with the exception of Colkirk and Hoe,) forms the Deanery of Brisley, in the Archdeaconry of Norwich. The Launditch Society for encouraging good conduct, industrious habits, &c. among servants and labourers, holds its annual meetings for awarding prizes, &c. at Litcham, in October.

Petty Sessions for Launditch Hundred are held at Litcham, on the first Wednesday, and at North Elmham on the third Wednesday of every month. Mr. Charles Wright is clerk to the magistrates.

This Hundred contains thirty-three parishes, of which the following is an enumeration, shewing their population in 1841, the annual value of their lands and buildings, as assessed to the County Rate in 1843, and their territorial extent, in assessable acres.

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* DILLINGTON is a hamlet in East Dereham parish, but in Launditch Hundred. (See page 310 [East Dereham section].)

+ Gressenhall return includes 242 persons in the Union Workhouse.

! Beeston & Bittering Parva are ecclesiastically separate parishes, but united for the support of the poor.

@ Litcham return included 25 visitors attending theraces.

The whole Hundred is in MITFORD AND LAUNDITCH UNION, which has its Workhouse at Gressenhall, and is already noticed at page 307 [this is in Mitford Hundred description]. It is in Dereham, Castleacre, and Briningham Police Divisions. Its population, in 1831, was 12,579; and its annual value, as assessed to the PROPERTY TAX, was £59,165, in 1815, and £86,938 in 1842.

Notes

Some placenames in the transcription (of pages 326 to 327) above are given below together with their standard spelling :-
Beeston/"Beeston next Mileham" or "Beeston cum Bittering", Bittering/Bittering Parva, Bilney (East)/East Bilney, Dillington ham./Dillington hamlet, Dunham (Great)/Great Dunham, Dunham (Little)/Little Dunham, Elmham (North)/North Elmham, Fransham (Great)/Great Fransham, Fransham (Little)/Little Fransham, Kempstone/Kempston, Lexham (East)/East Lexham, Lexham (West)/West Lexham

** This should say "Beeston". The "All Sts." is an error.

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MITFORD HUNDRED

The most central division of Norfolk, comprehends an area of about ten miles in length and six in breadth, bounded on the north by Eynesford; on the east, by Forehoe; on the south, by Wayland; and on the west; by South Greenhoe and Launditch Hundreds. It formerly abounded in extensive commons, nearly the whole of which have been enclosed during the last fifty years, so that it is now a highly cultivated and well wooded district.

At the Domesday survey, it belonged to the monastery founded in the Isle of Ely, by Ethelfreda, a princess of East Anglia; from which it passed to the See of Ely, with which it remained till granted to the Crown by an Act of Parliament in the first of Elizabeth. It has since passed to various lords, and forms, with Forehoe Hundred, the Deanery of Hingham, in the Archdeaconry of Norfolk.

It is in East Dereham Police Division, and petty sessions are held in that town every alternate Friday. "THE HUNDRED OF MITFORD SOCIETY for promoting and rewarding good conduct, and encouraging industrious habits, amongst Servants, Cottagers, and Labourers," is a very useful institution, supported by annual subscriptions, which are given in prizes to the most deserving, at the annual meeting held at Dereham, generally on the last Thursday in October.

Mitford contains eighteen parishes, of which the following is an enumeration, shewing their population in 1841, the annual value of their lands and buildings, as assessed to the county rate in 1843, and their territorial extent, in assessable acres:-

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* Dillington is in Launditch Hundred, but in Dereham parish.

+ The annual value of the Hundred, as assessed to the property tax, was £46,000, in 1815, and £64,962 in 1842. Its population, in 1831, was 11,528.

MITFORD AND LAUNDITCH UNION. -- All the fifty parishes of the Hundreds of Mitford and Launditch, were incorporated for the support of their poor, in 1775; but in 1801, the parish of East Dereham obtained an act by which it was separated from the incorporation. In 1836, the whole of these parishes, with ten parishes in Eynesford Hundred, were formed into an Union under the new poor law. These sixty parishes comprise an area of about 110,000 acres, and had in 1841 a population of 28,493 inhabitants, of whom 14,095 were males and 14,398 females.

The House of Industry, which belonged to the old incorporation, is at Gressenhall, and was built in 1776 and '7, at the cost of £16,242, including the purchase of 61A. 2R. 35P. of land. In 1835, it was valued at nearly £10,000, and in the following year, about £5000 was expended in repairs, alterations, &c., so as to adapt it as the Union Workhouse. The average annual expenditure of the sixty parishes of this extensive Union, from 1832 to 1835, was £26,684. In 1842, their expenditure, solely for the relief of in and out-door poor, was £9815, and in 1843, £9021. The number of persons in the Workhouse, in July, 1841, was 242. On March 18th, 1844, there were 320 paupers in the house; and at one period in 1800, it had as many as 670 inmates. They are maintained and clothed at the weekly cost of 2s. 4d. per head.

Though this large Workhouse stands in a high and healthy situation, cholera and scarlet fever, in 1834, swept away one-sixth of its inmates. Part of the land is enclosed as a burial ground, and the rest is cultivated by spade husbandry.

Mr. George Fras. and Mrs. Whelan are master and matron of the Workhouse; Mr. Chas. Wright, of Litcham, is clerk to the Board of Guardians; the Rev. Jph. Thompson is chaplain; and Messrs. Fras. Reynolds, Thos. Mendham, and John Francis Reynolds, are the relieving officers. Mr. Charles Wright is also SUPERINTENDENT REGISTRAR; and Mr. W. M. Warcup, of East Dereham, is Registrar of Marriages for the whole Union. The DISTRICTS and Registrars of Births and Deaths are - Litcham, Mr. P. Raven; Elmham, J. Goshawk; Bawdeswell, C. Baker; Mattishall, H. Daveney; Shipdham, J. R. Rivett; and East Dereham, W. M. Warcup.

Notes

• Some placenames in the transcription (of pages 307 to 308) above are given below together with their standard spelling :-
  Dereham (East)/East Dereham, Dillingtn.ham./Dillington hamlet, Mattishall-Bergh/Mattishall Burgh, Reymerstone/Reymerston, South-Burgh/Southburgh, Tuddenham East/East Tuddenham, Tuddenham North/North Tuddenham
• The hundred name is also seen spelt as "Mytford" in some documents.

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• Other hundred descriptions from White's 1845.

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SMITHDON HUNDRED

Is a fine agricultural district, forming the most north-western division of Norfolk, averaging about ten miles in length and breadth, and bounded on the north and west by the Ocean and the Wash, on the south by Freebridge-Lynn, and on the east by Gallow and Brothercross Hundreds.

The surface is in many places picturesquely undulated, and the soil being mostly a deep rich clay, is naturally fertile, except in some of the higher grounds, where a light sand prevails, and was formerly in large open fields, most of which have been enclosed since 1761, when 5,000 acres of waste, near Snettisham, was fenced and allotted by act of Parliament.

The lands near the shore are chiefly salt marshes, which are often inundated at spring tides; and at other periods, a strong gale from the north-west has sometimes brought in the water with such force and rapidity, that whole flocks of sheep and herds of cattle have been lost. It is, however, now proposed to recover a large portion of the Great Estuary, called the Wash, from the incursions of the tides, as noticed at page 517 [see History of King's Lynn section]. If this grand scheme is carried into effect, a tract of fine alluvial marshes, about five miles in breadth, will be added to the western side of this Hundred; and the lofty sea-cliff, at Hunstanton, will then be that distance from the ocean.

At the Domesday survey, this division was in two Hundreds, called Smithdon and Docking.

Petty Sessions are held at Snettisham on the second, and at Docking on the last Monday of every month. Mr. Anthony Blyth is clerk to the magistrates.

This Hundred belongs to a great number of freeholders and copyholders; but Henry L'Estrange Styleman Le Strange, Esq., is lord of nearly half of the manors.

It is divided into 18 parishes, of which the following is an enumeration, shewing their population in 1841, the annual value of their lands and buildings, as assessed to the County Rate in 1843, and their territorial extent, in assessable acres:-

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* Docking includes Southmere, a decayed parish, and 80 persons in the Union Workhouse.

+ Choseley , an extra Parochial Liberty of 650 acres, and 8 souls, is included with Great Ringstead.

@ Hunstanton return included 33 visitors; and Snettisham, 36 men in boats. The former parish also includes Ringstead Parva.

! The whole Hundred is in Docking Police Division. Its population in 1831, was only 8,262. Its annual value, as assessed to the Property Tax, was £50,272, in 1815, and £52,278, in 1842.

DOCKING UNION, formed in 1835, comprises all the 18 parishes of Smithdon Hundred; the 9 parishes of Brothercross Hundred; the parishes of Anmer and Dersingham, in Freebridge-Lynn; and those of Bagthorpe, Barmer, Broomsthorpe, Houghton, Syderstone, East Rudham, and West Rudham, in Gallow Hundred.

The 36 parishes of this Union, comprise an area of 128 square miles, and had 16,930 inhabitants, in 1841, of whom 8,364 were males, and 8,566 females. Their average annual expenditure on their poor, &c., from 1832 to 1835, was £16,840; but in 1838 it was only £9,033; and since then it has been reduced to little more than £8,000. The Union Workhouse is at Docking, nearly in the centre of the Union, and is an extensive range of brick building, erected in 1836, at the cost of about £9,000, including the furniture, &c. It was opened in December, 1836, and has room for 513 paupers, but in summer it has seldom more than 100.

H. E. Blyth, Esq. is chairman of the Board of Guardians; Mr. Fras. Oakes, of Burnham Market, is Union Clerk and Superintendent Registrar; Mr. Thos. and Mrs. Wilson, master and matron of the Workhouse; Mr. Wm. Groome, of Ringstead, and Mr. J. B. Copeman, of North Creak, relieving officers; Mr. W. C. Hotson, auditor; and the Rev. C. D. Hamilton, chaplain.

Notes

• Some placenames in the transcription (of pages 632 to 634) above are given below together with their standard spelling :-
  Bircham (Great)/Great Bircham, Holme-next-the-Sea/Holme-next-Sea, Ringstead (Great)/Great Ringstead, Shernbourne/Shernborne
• The hundred name is also seen spelt as "Smethdon" in some documents.

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• General description and layout of Hundreds.
• Other hundred descriptions from White's 1845.
• See Deaneries pages for ecclesiastical jurisdictions.

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TUNSTEAD HUNDRED

Is of a crooked oblong figure, extending about 13 miles southward from the sea coast, between Happisburgh and Mundesley, to the river Bure, and averaging from five to six miles in breadth. It is generally a well cultivated district of rich loamy land, highly productive in wheat and barley, and broken into a pleasing variety of hills, vales, and plains, interspersed with tracts of fertile marshes, and watered by several "broads" and rivulets, most of which are tributary to the small river Ant.

This river intersects and bounds this Hundred during its whole course from Antingham to the Bure, and was formerly navigable only as high as Dilham; but by deepening the channel, and cutting a canal, upwards of seven miles in length, in 1825-6, at the cost of £32,000, the navigation has been extended to North Walsham, and the bounds of Antingham; thus affording an easy transit for the produce of this and adjoining Hundreds, to Yarmouth.

TUNSTEAD AND HAPPING HUNDREDS form the Deanery of Waxham or Waxton, in the Archdeanery of Norwich, and their 24 parishes, except North Walsham, (which is in Erpingham Union,) where[sic] INCORPORATED for the support of their poor, in the 25th of Geo. III., when they erected a HOUSE OF INDUSTRY, at Smallburgh, which was altered and a little enlarged in 1836, and has room for about 500 paupers. Attached to this large Workhouse is 24A. of arable land. The expenditure of the 41 incorporated parishes, on their in and out-door poor, was £4367, in 1839; £4381, in 1842; and £1433, for the quarter ending September, 1844. They comprise an area of about 57,700 acres, and a population of 15,436 souls, of whom 7588 were males, and 7848 females.

John Postle, Esq., is chairman, and Mr. Jno. Barnard, of Worstead, is clerk to the Board of Guardians and Directors. Mr Washington Smith is master of the Wockhouse[sic] and Superintendent Registrar, for the incorporated parishes. The Rev. Thos. Dix is chaplain; and Messrs. James Bean and Robt. Rising, are relieving officers and registrars of births and deaths; the former for Tunstead District, and the latter for Happing District.

Tunstead Hundred is bounded on the north by the ocean and North Erpingham, on the east by Happing, on the south by Walsham, and on the west by South Erpingham and Taverham Hundreds. It contains 26 parishes, of which the following is an enumeration, shewing their population in 1841, the annual value of their lands and buildings, as assessed to the County Rate, in 1843, and their territorial extent, in assessable acres.

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* Smallburgh included 135 persons in the Workhouse of the incorporated parishes of Tunstead and Happing, which comprise all the above, except North Walsham, which is in Erpingham Union.

+ Tunstead is in Aylsham and Ludham Police Divisions. Its population, in 1831, was 10,593; and its annual value, as assessed to the property tax, was £39,139, in 1815, and £50,595 in 1842.

PETTY SESSIONS, for Tunstead and Happing Hundreds, are held every Thursday, at North Walsham, and every Tuesday at the Workhouse, in Smallburgh. Mr. Philip Millard, of the former place, is clerk to the magistrates. The TUNSTEAD AND HAPPING AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION holds its meetings at North Walsham, where there is also a Farmers' Club.

Notes

Some placenames in the transcription (of pages 474 to 475) above are given below together with their standard spelling :-
Beeston St. Lawrc./Beeston St. Lawrence, Walsham (North)/North Walsham, Witton/Witton (near North Walsham)

From ADDITIONS AND ALTERATIONS on page 816, ERRATA section:

Page 474, sixth line from bottom, read 42, not 24 parishes.

This is Paragraph 3, first sentence in this page.

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WALSHAM HUNDRED

Is a long, narrow district, of an irregular figure, bounded on the south-east by the river Yare; on the north, by the river Bure, which separates it from Tunstead Hundred; and on the south and west, by Blofield and Taverham Hundreds; extending about 15 miles north-west from the confluence of the two rivers near Yarmouth, and varying from two to eight miles in breadth.

A considerable portion of the soil is low marshy land, and was frequently subject to inundation, particularly in the vale of the Bure, which extends the whole length of the Hundred; but the commons and marshes have been nearly all enclosed, and well drained, during the present century.

At the Norman Conquest, this Hundred was called Walesha, from the watery nature of its soil, and was then held by the Crown. Henry I. transferred a great part of it to Eborard, Bishop of Norwich, as a life-hold, at an annual rent of 100 shillings. In the time of Edward II., John de Clavering was seized of many manors here and in Blofield, and one court was held for both these Hundreds, which together form the Deanery of Blofield, in the Archdeaconry of Norwich.

A House of Industry was erected at Acle, in 1788, for seven parishes, to which ten other parishes were afterwards united, but the house was burnt down in Nov. 1834.

Walsham Hundred is crossed both by the Norwich and Yarmouth Railway and Turnpike, and contains thirteen parishes, of which the following is an enumeration, shewing their population, in 1841, their annual value, as assessed to the County Rate in 1843, and their territorial extent, in assessable acres.

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+ Fishley and Panxworth are ecclesiastically separate parishes.

The whole Hundred is in BLOFIELD UNION, and in Ludham and Loddon Police Divisions. Its population was 4525, in 1831, and its annual value, as assessed to the property tax, was £27,061, in 1815, and £49,026, in 1842.

Notes

Some placenames in the transcription (of pages 494 to 495) above are given below together with their standard spelling :-
Moulton/Moulton St Mary, Walsham (South)/South Walsham

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GENERAL HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE
COUNTY OF NORFOLK

CLIMATE

[Transcription copyright © Pat Newby]

From Norfolk being exposed to the ocean on the north, and to a large extent of marshes and fens on the south and south-west, the air is extremely sharp in winter and in the early part of spring. North and north-easterly winds are more prevalent than in any other parts of the kingdom, and vegetation is consequently backward. The contiguity to the sea and to the marshes and fens, and the vapours brought from Holland, account for the frequent rains and storms during the summer months, but they are seldom of so long duration as in more hilly districts.

In the hundreds of Marshland and Clackclose, and other fenny parts of the county, the air is not only cold but exceedingly damp, and the inhabitants are subject to intermittent fevers; but as the fens and marshes are now well-drained, these endemical agues are much less frequent than formerly, when strangers on their first residence were generally attacked with them, and were proverbially said to be 'arrested by the bailiff of Marshland.'

The great upland to the east and north-east, consisting chiefly of a sandy or gravelly soil, is peculiarly salubrious and pleasant.

The men of Norfolk are generally of a light wiry make, formed for activity rather than strength, and the same may be said of the native breeds of horses and cattle. Marshall, an agricultural writer about 100 years ago, mentions his astonishment at the activity and quantity of work performed by Norfolk men and horses; and in Chaucer, and many early authors, the same peculiarities are noticed.

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GENERAL HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE
COUNTY OF NORFOLK

COUNTY COURTS

[Transcription copyright © Pat Newby]

COUNTY COURTS. - For County Court purposes, Norfolk is principally included in two circuits - the Norfolk circuit, No. 32, and the Suffolk circuit, No. 33 - though a few places are in Wisbech county court district (No. 32), one in Ely district (No. 32), and one in Holbeach district (No. 17). Some of the parishes, &c., in Thetford, Harleston, Diss and Eye, and Yarmouth county court districts are in Suffolk, while courts for places in Norfolk are held at Beccles and Bungay, in Suffolk.

The judge of the Norfolk circuit is E. Plumer Price, Esq., Q.C., of 69 Milsom Road, Kensington, London; and of the Suffolk circuit, Sir F. Roxburgh, Q.C., 53 Westbourne Terrace, London, W. The judge at Holbeach is S. Jones, Esq., LL.D., Newport House, Lincoln.

The following table gives the towns in which County Courts are held, the Circuit and the Bankruptcy district to which such courts belong, and the names of the registrars:-

County Courts are not held in the month of September. At Yarmouth, Wymondham, Lynn, Dereham, Fakenham, Norwich, Aylsham, and Wisbech courts are held monthly; occasionally a court is held at Walsingham instead of Fakenham. At Thetford, Swaffham, Holt, North Walsham, Attleboro', Ely, and Downham, courts are held once in two months. Courts are held at Diss and Eye, and Bungay and Beccles, in alternate months.

The following enumeration gives the places in each district:-

ATTLEBOROUGH

Attleborough, Banham, Besthorpe, Breckles, Bridgham, Buckenham New, Buckenham Old, Carbrooke, Caston, Eccles, Ellingham Great, Ellingham Little, Griston, Hargham, Harling East, Harling West, Hockham, Hockham Little, Illington, Kenninghall, Larling, Merton, Ovington, Quiddenham, Rockland All Saints, Rockland St. Andrew, Rockland St. Peter, Roudham, Scoulton. Shropham, Snetterton, Stow Bedon, Thompson, Tottington, Watton and Wilby.

AYLSHAM

Alby, Aylsham, Alderford, Banningham, Barningham Parva, Belaugh, Blickling, Brampton, Booton, Burgh, Brandiston, Buxton, Calthorpe, Cawston, Colby, Coltishall, Corpusty, Erpingham, Foulsham, Guestwick, Hackford, Hautbois Magna, Haveringland, Hevingham, Heydon, Hindolveston, Ingworth, Irmingland, Itteringham, Lammas-with-Hautbois Parva, Mannington, Marsham, Oulton, Oxnead, Reepham-with-Kerdistone, Sall, Saxthorpe, Scottow, Skeyton, Stratton Strawless, Swanton Abbott, Swanington, Themelthorpe, Thurning, Thwaite, Tuttington, Whitwell, Wickmere, Witchingham Great, Witchingham Little, Wood Dalling, Wood Norton, and Wolterton.

DISS AND EYE

In Norfolk. - Blo' Norton, Bressingham, Burston, Diss, Fersfield, Frenze, Garboldisham, Gissing, North and South Lopham, Roydon, Scole, Shelfanger, Shimpling, Thelveton, and Winfarthing (other places in Suffolk).

BECCLES AND BUNGAY

Courts held at these towns in alternate months for the following places:-
In Norfolk. - Aldeby, Bedingham, Broome, Burgh St. Peter, Chedgrave, Ditchingham, Ellingham, Geldeston, Gillingham All Saints, Gillingham St. Mary, Haddiscoe, Hales, Heckingham, Hedenham, Kirby Cane, Kirkstead, Mundham, Norton Subcourse, Raveningham, Seething, Stockton, Thorpe-next-Haddiscoe, Thurlton, Thwaite, Toft Monks, Topcroft, Wheatacre All Saints, and Woodton.
In Suffolk. - Barsham, Beccles, Bungay St. Mary, Bungay Trinity, Ellough, Henstead-with-Hulver Street, Ilketshall St. Andrew, Ilketshall St. Lawrence, Ilketshall St. Margaret, Ilketshall St. John, Mettingham, North Cove, Redisham, Ringsfield, Shadingfield, Shipmeadow, Sotterley, Weston, Willingham, and Worlingham.

ELY

In Norfolk. - Redmere (other places in Cambridgeshire).

DOWNHAM MARKET

Barton Bendish, Bexwell, Boughton, Crimplesham, Denver, Dereham West, Downham Market, Fincham, Fordham, Holme-next-Runcton, Hilgay, Marham, North Delph, Roxham, Runcton South, Ryston, Shouldham, Shouldham Thorpe, Southery, Stoke Ferry, Stow Bardolph, Stradsett, Tottenhill, Wallington-cum-Thorpland, Watlington, Wereham, Welney, Wiggenhall St. Peter, Wimbotsham, Wormegay and Wretton.

EAST DEREHAM

Bawdeswell, Beeston, Beetley, Billingford, Bittering, Bilney East, Bintry, Brisley, Bylaugh, Colkirk, Cranworth, Dereham East, Elmham North, Elsing, Foxley, Fransham Great and Little, Garvestone, Gateley, Gressenhall, Guist, Hockering, Hoe, Horningtoft, Kempstone, Letton, Litcham, Longham, Lyng, Mattishall, Mattishall Burgh, Mileham, Oxwick, Reymerstone, Scarning, Shipdham, Southburgh, Sparham, Stanfield, Swanton Morley, Thuxton, Tittleshall, Tuddenham East and North, Twyford, Weasenham All Saints and St. Peter's, Wellingham, Wendling, Westfield, Whinbergh, Whissonsett, Worthing, and Yaxham.

FAKENHAM

Alethorpe, Bale, Barney, Barsham East, North and West, Binham, Briningham, Barwick, Bircham Great, Newton and Tofts, Brancaster, Bagthorpe, Barmer, Broomsthorpe, Burnham Westgate, Burnham Sutton, Burnham Thorpe, Burnham Norton, Burnham Overy, Burnham Deepdale, Cockthorpe, Creake North and South, Dunton, Docking, Egmere, Fakenham, Field Dalling, Fulmodestone-with-Croxton, Fring, Gunthorpe, Helhoughton, Hempton, Hindringham, Holkham, Houghton-in-the-Dale, Houghton New, Kettlestone, Pensthorpe, Pudding Norton, Raynham East, South and West, Ryburgh Great and Little, Rudham East and West, Sculthorpe, Sharrington, Shereford, Snoring Great and Little, Stibbard, Stiffkey, Swanton Novero [sic], Syderstone, Stanhoe, Tattersett, Testerton, Thursford, Toftrees, Tatterford, Thornham, Titchwell, Waterden, Walsingham Great and Little, Warham, Wells-next-the-Sea, and Wighton.

HARLESTON

(Norfolk and Suffolk). - Alburgh, Billingford, Brockdish, Denton, Dickleburgh, Earsham, Flixton, Fritton, Fressingfield, Hardwick, Hempnall, Homersfield, Langmere, Mendham, Metfield, Morningthorpe, Needham, Pulham St. Mary the Virgin and St. Mary Magdalen, Redenhall-with-Harleston, Rushall, Syleham, Shelton; South Elmham All Saints, St. Nicholas, St. Cross, St. James, St. Margaret, St. Michael, and St. Peter; Starston, Stratton St. Mary and St. Michael, Tharston, Thorpe Abbotts, Tivetshall St. Mary and St. Margaret, Weybread, Withersdale, Wacton, Wingfield, and Wortwell.

HOLBEACH

In Norfolk - Central Wingland. (Other places in Lincolnshire.)

HOLT

Aldborough, Aylmerton, Baconsthorpe, Barningham Town and Norwood, Beckham East and West, Beeston Regis, Bessingham, Blakeney, Bodham, Brinton, Briston, Cley-next-the-Sea, Cromer, Edgefield, Felbrigg, Glandford-with-Bayfield, Gresham, Hempstead, Holt, Hunworth, Kelling, Langham, Letheringsett, Matlaske, Melton Constable-with-Burgh, Metton, Morston, Overstrand, Plumstead, Runton, Salthouse, Saxlingham, Sherringham, Stody, Sustead, Thurgarton, Thornage, Weybourne, and Wiveton.

KING'S LYNN

Anmer, Ashwicken, Babingley, Bawsey, Bilney West, Castle Rising, Clenchwarton, Congham, Dersingham, Flitcham, Gaywood, Gaywood Highgate, Gayton, Gayton Thorpe, Grimston, Hunstanton, Hardwicke, Holme-next-the-Sea, Harpley, Heacham, Hillington, Ingoldisthorpe, King's Lynn, Lynn West and North, Leziate, Massingham Great and Little, Middleton, Mintlyn, Newton West, Pentney, Roydon, Runcton North, Ringstead Great, Saddlebow, Sandringham, Sedgeford, Setch, Shernborne, Snettisham, Terrington St. Clement, Terrington St. John, Terrington Cross Keys, Terrington St. Lawrence, Tilney All-Saints, Tilney-cum-Islington, Walton East, Winch East and West, Wolferton, Wootton North, and South, Wiggenhall St. Mary Magdalen, Wiggenhall St. Mary the Virgin, Wiggenhall St. Germans.

NORTH WALSHAM

Antingham, Ashmanhaugh, Bacton, Barton Turf, Beeston St. Lawrence, Bradfield, Brumstead, Catfield, Crostwight, Dilham, Eccles-by-the-Sea, Edingthorpe, Felmingham, Gimingham, Gunton, Hanworth, Happisburgh, Hempstead, Hickling, Honing, Hoveton St. John and St. Peter, Ingham, Irstead, Knapton, Lessingham, Mundesley, Neatishead, Palling, Paston, Repps North and South, Riddlington, Roughton, Ruston East, Sco-Ruston, Sidestrand, Sloley, Smallburgh, Stalham, Suffield, Sutton, Swafield, Thorpe Market, Trimingham, Trunch, Tunstead, Walcott, Waxham, Westwick, Witton, Worstead.

NORWICH

Acle, Alpington, Arminghall, Ashby, Attlebridge, Barford, Bawburgh, Beeston St. Andrew, Beighton, Bergh Apton, Bixley, Blofield, Bowthorpe, Bracon Ash, Bracondale, Brandiston, Bramerton, Brooke, Brundall, Buckenham; Burlingham St. Andrew, St. Edmund, St. Peter; Caister St. Edmund, Cantley, Carlton East, Carleton St. Peter, Carrow, Catton Old and New, Claxton, Colney, Colton, Cossey, Cringleford, Crostwick, Drayton, Dunston, Earlham, Easton, Eaton, Felthorpe, Fishley, Flordon, Framingham Earl, Framingham Pigot, Frettenham, Hainford, Hardley, Hassingham, Heigham-beyond-the-Walls, Hellesdon, Hemblington, Hethersett, Hillington, Holverstone, Horningham, Horning, Horsford, Horsham St. Faith's, Horstead, Howe, Intwood, Keswick, Kirby Bedon, Lakenham New and Old, Langley, Lingwood, Ludham, Markshall, Marlingford, Melton Great and Little, Morton, Moulton, Mulbarton, Newton Flotman, Newton St. Faith's, Norwich, Panxworth, Plumstead Great and Little, Pockthorpe, Poringland Great and Little, Postwick, Rackheath, Ranworth, Ringland, Rockland St. Mary, Salhouse, Saxlingham Nethergate, and Thorpe, Shottesham All-Saints, St. Martin, and St. Mary, Sisland, Spixworth, Sprowston, Stanninghall, Stoke Holy Cross, Strumpshaw, Surlingham, Swainsthorpe, Swardestone, Tasburgh, Taverham, Thorpe Hamlet and St. Andrew, Thurton, Trowse, Upton, Walsham St. Lawrence and St. Mary, Weston, Whitlingham, Witton, Woodbastwick, Wroxham, and Yelverton.

SWAFFHAM

Ashill, Beechamwell, Bodney, Bradenham East and West, Buckenham Tofts, Caldecote, Castle Acre, Cockley Cley, Colveston, Cressingham Great and Little, Dunham Great, Didlington, Dunham Little, Foulden, Gooderstone, Hilborough, Holme Hale, Houghton-on-the-Hill, Igburgh East and West, Lexham, Langford, Marham, Narborough, Narford, Necton, Newton by Castle Acre, Oxborough North and South, Pickenham, Rougham, Saham Toney, Shingham, Southacre, Sporle with Palgrave, Stanford, Swaffham, Threxton, Westacre.

THETFORD

(Norfolk and Suffolk). - Barnham, Barningham, Brandon, Brettenham, Coney Weston, Cranwich, Croxton, Euston, Fakenham, Feltwell, Gasthorpe, Hepworth, Hockwold-with-Wilton, Honington, Hopton, Knettishall, Kilverstone, Lynford, Market Weston, Methwold, Mundford, Northwold, Riddlesworth, Rushford, Snarehill, Santon, Santon Downham, Sapiston, Sturston, Thelnetham, Thetford, West Tofts, Weeting East and West, Wretham.

WISBECH

In Norfolk - Emneth, Outwell, Upwell, Walpole St. Andrew, Walpole St. Peter, Walsoken, and West Walton.

WYMONDHAM

Ashwellthorpe, Aslacton, Barnham Broom, Brandon Parva, Bunwell, Carleton Forehoe, Carleton Rode, Coston, Crownthorpe, Deopham, Forncett St. Mary and St. Peter, Fundenhall, Hackford, Hapton, Hardingham, Hethel, Hingham, Ketteringham, Kimberley, Morley St. Botolph and St. Peter, Moulton, Runhall, Tacolnestone, Tibenham, Welborne, Wicklewood, Wood Rising, Wramplingham, Wreningham, and Wymondham.

YARMOUTH

In Norfolk - Ashby-with-Oby, Billockby, Burgh St. Mary and St. Margaret, Caistor, Clippesby, Filby, Freethorpe, Halvergate, Hemsby, Horsey-next-the-Sea, Limpenhoe, Martham, Mautby, Ormesby Great and Little, Potter Heigham, Reedham, Repps, Rollesby, Runham, Scratby, Somerton East and West, Southwood, Stokesby-with-Herringby, Thrigby, Thurne, Tunstall, Wickhampton, and Winterton.
In Suffolk - Belton, Bradwell, Burgh Castle, Fritton, Gorleston, and Hopton.

These pages are for personal use only. They may not be copied, and the links within them may not be harvested for use on your own web pages. Please see the Copyright Notice.

See also White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1883
and Towns and Parishes where there are links to most of these places.

Copyright © Pat Newby.
October 2001

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

LIST OF FAIRS IN NORFOLK.

[Transcription copyright © Pat Newby]

Aldborough, June 21
Attleburgh, Thursday before Easter, Thurs. before Whitsun. and Aug. 5
Aylsham, March 23, and last Tuesday in September
Bacton, first Monday in August
Banham, June 22
Binham, July 26
Briston, May 26 and October 13
Broomhill, July 7
Buckenham (New), last Thursday in May and November 22
Burnham (East), Tues. and Aug. 1 & 2 [sic]
Castleacre, May 1 and August 5
Cawston, Feb. 1, April 14, and last Wednesday in August (Sheep Show)
Cley, last Friday in July
Coltishall, Whit Monday
Cressingham Magna, first Wednesday and Thursday in August
Cromer, Whit Monday
Dereham, Thursday before July 6 and Thursday before September 29
Diss (Statute Fair), third Friday in September; Cattle, &c. Nov. 8
Downham (Winnold Horse Fair), March 3, first Friday in May, and second
    Friday in November
Elmham, April 6
Feltwell, Wednesday after Nov. 20
Forncett, first Thursday in September
Foulsham, first Tuesday in May
Frettenham, first Monday in April
Fring, May 21 and November 30
Gaywood, June 22 and October 17
Gissing, July 25
Gressenhall, December 6
Happisburgh, Tuesday after Whit Tuesday (Pleasure Fair)
Harleston, July 5 and September 9
Harling, May 4, first Tuesday after Sept. 12 (Sheep Show), Oct. 24
Harpley, July 24
Hempnall, Whit Monday and Dec. 11
Hempton, Whit Tuesday and Nov. 22
Heacham, August 3
Hingham, March 7, Whit Tuesday, and October 2
Hockham, Easter Monday
Hockwold, first Wednes. after Oct. 11
Holt, April 25 and November 25
Horning, third Thursday in July
Ingham, Monday after Whit Monday (Cattle)
Kenninghall, July 18 and September 30 (Sheep Show)
Kipton Ash, first Wednes. in Sept., on Hempton Green (Sheep Show)
Litcham, November 1
Loddon, Easter Monday and Monday after November 22
Ludham, Thursday after Whits. week
Lynn, Feb. 14 (Mart), Oct. 17 (Cheese Fair); Cattle Fairs, second Tuesday
    in April and November
Lyng, November 20
Massingham, Tuesday before Easter and November 8
Mattishall, Tues. before Holy Thurs
Martham, last Tuesday in July
Methwold, April 23
Northwold, November 30
North Walsham, day before Holy Thu
Norwich, day before Good Friday
Oxborough, Easter Tuesday
Pulham Market, third Thurs. in May
Reepham, June 29
Rudham, May 17 and October 14
Scole, Easter Tuesday
Scottow, Easter Tuesday
Shipdham, last Monday in June (Stock and Cattle)
Shouldham, Sept. 19 and Oct. 11
Southrepps, Tuesday fortnight after Whit Sunday
Stoke Ferry, December 6
Stowbridge, Satur. after Whit Sunday
Stratton, October 12
Swaffham, second Wed. in May, third Wednes. in July, and first Wed. in
    November (Sheep Shows)
Thetford, May 14, second Friday in July (Wool), August 2 (Magdalen)
    and 16 (Lambs)
Walsingham, Monday fortnight after Whit Sunday
Watton, July 10, Oct. 11, Nov. 8; Sheep Fairs, first Wednesday in July
    and second Wednesday in Sept.
Weasenham, January 25
Wells, Shrove Tuesday
Winfarthing, June 25
Worstead, May 12
Wymondham, February 14, May 17, and October 12
Yarmouth, Friday and Saturday in Easter week

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See also White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1883.

Copyright © Pat Newby.
January 2007

Examples of entries

This section aims to illustrate how the amount of information published in directories increased over the years. As it said on the main page for this topic, these may contain some biographical information about previous inhabitants of a place.

• 1793 Universal British Directory
  This shows the Winterton entry to contain a description only.
• 1831 Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England
  This shows the Winterton entry to have 545 inhabitants.
• 1836 Whites Norfolk
  This shows the Winterton entry to have 35 named inhabitants.
• 1845 Whites Norfolk
  This shows the Winterton entry to have 38 named inhabitants out of a population of 588 (excluding 131 fishermen) in the 1841 census.
• 1864 Whites Norfolk
  This shows the Winterton entry to have 20 named inhabitants out of a population of 682.
• 1868 Harrods Norfolk
  This shows the Yaxham entry
• 1883 Whites Norfolk
  This shows the Winterton entry to have 30 named inhabitants out of a population of 790 in the 1881 census.
• 1883 Kelly's Directory for Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk
  This shows the Winterton entry to have 20 named inhabitants out of a population of 749 in 1881.
• 1896 Kelly's Directory of Norfolk
  This shows the Winterton entry to have 28 named inhabitants out of a population of 715 in 1891.
• 1900 Kelly's Directory of Norfolk
  This shows the Breccles entry
• 1904 Kelly's Norfolk
  This shows the Winterton entry to have 29 named inhabitants out of a population of 740 in the 1901 census.
• 1937 Kelly's Norfolk
  This shows the Roudham entry (this is a link to an archived copy)

Note that many of the early directories contain archaic terms and unexplained abbreviations which are not in general use any more.

Many other Towns and Parishes have been transcribed from the White's directories of 1845 and 1883.

Link back to main Gazetteers and Directories page

These pages are for personal use only. They may not be copied, and the links within them may not be harvested for use on your own web pages. Please see the Copyright Notice.

Copyright © Mike Bristow.
October 2006

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

GENERAL HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE
COUNTY OF NORFOLK

FENS, &c.

Note that only part of this section has been transcribed so far.

[Transcription copyright © Basil Rix]

The SMEETH and FEN, comprising 7263A. 1R. 34P., in the southern part of Marshland, have been drained and divided among the owners of 525 common-rights, under the powers of an Act of Parliament passed in 1796, and at an expense of upwards of £50,000; of which £10,000 were expended in 1833, in cutting a wide and deep drain, 4½ miles long, from Tilney Fen-End to the Eau-Brink Cut, near St. German's, for the purpose of superseding the four windmills, which formerly pumped the water from the lower into the higher levels.  A drainage rate is charged by the commissioners on the landowners, amounting to about 2s. 7d. per acre per annum.

This extensive and now fertile tract was, from time immemorial, the common of the parishes called the Seven Towns of Marshland, among which the 525 common-rights were divided as follows:- Emneth, 73; Walsoken, 88; West Walton, 62; Walpole St. Peter, 81; Walpole St. Andrew, 25; Terrington St. Clement, 67; Terrington St. John, 41; Tilney All Saints, 33; Tilney St. Lawrence, 22; Tilney-cum-Islington, 19; and Clenchwarton, 14.

The land awarded to each common-right varied from 9 to 15 acres, according to the quality of the soil; and the parochial allotments extend in narrow strips to the southern termination of the fen, distant more than seven miles from some of the parish churches.  After the allotment, it was discovered that a piece of land, comprising 11 acres, in the parish of Walpole St. Peter, had been overlooked.  It therefore pays rates and taxes to the seven towns, and is now occupied by Mr Henry Hubbard.

The Smeeth, comprising only 1572A. 22P. is on the north side of the fen, and was celebrated as a summer pasture in the time of James I., when a courtier told that monarch, on his coming to the crown of England, 'That if overnight a wand or rod was laid on the ground, by the morning it would be covered with grass of that night's growth;' to which the King jocosely replied, 'That he knew some grounds in Scotland, where, if a horse was put in overnight, they could not see or discern him in the morning.'

The Fen (including the Broad, Short, and Wellmore Fens) comprises 5691A. 1R. 12P., now forming rich arable and meadow land, which before the enclosure was a wild morass abounding in reeds and large pools of water and frequented by numerous flocks of wild fowl, of which great quantities were shot or decoyed by the poor inhabitants of the 'Seven Towns,' who evinced much dissatisfaction at the enclosure, which destroyed their aquatic sports and profits, and all their other interest in the Smeeth and Fen.

Tradition says that, in ancient times, the people had a dispute with lords of the manors respecting their common-rights; when one Hickifric, of gigantic stature, who taking a cart-wheel for a shield, and the axletree for a sword, repelled the invaders. A large gravestone in Tilney churchyard, having upon it a cross so decorated with ornaments as to appear something like a wheel, is still shown by the credulous as the grave of this mythic giant. Comparative mythologists trace this story to the Aryan solar myths.

For other topics, see the contents page of White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1883
and Towns and Parishes where there are links to most of these places.

These pages are for personal use only. They may not be copied, and the links within them may not be harvested for use on your own web pages. Please see the Copyright Notice.

Copyright © Pat Newby.
February 2003

The term gazetteer means "Geographical index or dictionary" and may contain some biographical information about previous inhabitants of a place.

Directories are books containing some of the following:

• classified lists of inhabitants of a district
• members of trades or professions
• a list of the streets in a place (usually only the largest ones)
• telephone numbers

which existed at the date of publication. Many also include a short account of the history of the place first. Examples of directory entries are available for a number of Publishers and years so one can ascertain their usefulness.

They have been grouped together because of the difficulty of splitting them into the separate topics of directories and gazetteers. Most of the books contain both so have been listed as follows:

• Volumes covering the County or a number of Counties of which Norfolk is one.
• Town directories.

Please note that the early directories (pre 1900) do not list every person in a town or village. This is because some were by subscription and others did not justify the cost. Some of these also contain archaic terms and unexplained abbreviations which are not in general use any more. The later Kellys and others (1890s onward) give a far better coverage but generally only include the head of the household.

An increasing number are being reprinted of which some are on fiche.

Norfolk County entries

• Norfolk

City/Town.

• Aylsham

    Aylsham Directories 1793-1937

  [ISBN: 0-9521564-4-X, Aylsham Local History Society, 2004]

• Gorleston (was in Suffolk but is included in some Great Yarmouth dirs.)
• Great Yarmouth
• Kings Lynn
• Norwich
• Swaffham

    Yates'

  Swaffham and District Directory
  1970-71

• Thetford

    Henry Green

  Thetford and District Almanac and Directory
  1936
  [Bibliopolis CD books, 2005]

• Watton

    Kelly's

  Watton Directory
  1970-71

Transcriptions

Many Towns and Parishes have been transcribed from the White's directories of 1845 and 1883 and are fully searchable individually or via the icon at the top of this page.

Online Images

Online images (some of which are searchable) may be found at:

• Norfolk Heritage Centre website.
• Historical Directories section of Leicester University website. Do a search for "historical directories" in special collections.
• books.google.com

These pages are for personal use only. They may not be copied, and the links within them may not be harvested for use on your own web pages. Please see the Copyright Notice.

Copyright © Mike Bristow.
April 2011

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

This is the full text from the title page, though the fonts have not been reproduced.
The contents are below.

HISTORY, GAZETTEER AND DIRECTORY
OF
NORFOLK,
INCLUDING THE
CITY OF NORWICH,
AND COMPRISING
A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE COUNTY
AND SEPARATE
HISTORICAL, STATISTICAL, AND TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTIONS
OF ALL THE
HUNDREDS, BOROUGHS, TOWNS, PORTS, PARISHES, TOWNSHIPS, CHAPELRIES,
VILLAGES, HAMLETS, MANORS, AND UNIONS;
THE DIOCESE OF NORWICH;
THE SEATS OF THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY;
MAGISTRATES AND PUBLIC OFFICERS,
AND A GREAT VARIETY OF
ARCHAEOLOGICAL, ARCHITECTURAL, AGRICULTURAL, BIOGRAPHICAL, BOTANICAL, GEOLOGICAL, AND ORNITHOLOGICAL INFORMATION.
_______________

FOURTH EDITION.
_______________

BY WILLIAM WHITE,
AUTHOR OF SIMILIAR WORKS FOR
SUFFOLK; LINCOLNSHIRE; LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND; DEVONSHIRE; HAMPSHIRE; AND OTHER COUNTIES.
_______________

Price, Cloth, 30s; Half-bound, 35s.
_______________

SHEFFIELD:
WILLIAM WHITE, HOOLE'S CHAMBERS, BANK STREET.
LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO.
1883.

[Entered at Stationers' Hall.]

The title page is followed by the following sections. They are gradually being transcribed and put online - see the links.

• Preface
• Index of Places
• Index of Principal Subjects (General)
• Norwich Index of Subjects
• Yarmouth Index of Subjects
• King's Lynn Index of Subjects
• Index to Advertisers
• Trades Index to Advertisers
• Trade Marks Index
• High Sheriffs of Norfolk since 1828
• A List of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Norfolk
• Seats of the Nobility, Clergy, and Gentry in Norfolk
• Norfolk Court of Sewers
• List of Fairs in Norfolk
• Population Abstracts
• Additions and Corrections
• General History and Description of the County of Norfolk
  This part of the book consists of about 100 pages, and transcriptions will be put online as each section is done.
  • Page 17: Climate
  • Page 20: Fens, &c.
  • Page 23: Railways
  • Page 30: Parliamentary Representation
  • Page 33: Petty Sessional Divisions
  • Page 39: County Courts
  • Page 44: Military Organisation
  • Page 114: Occupations, from the Census Return of 1871
• Norfolk Towns, Parishes, and Villages, arranged in Alphabetical Order
  • There are many transcriptions online of individual places.
    See the Towns and Parishes pages.
• Norfolk Professions and Trades
• White's Professional and Commercial Advertising Directory

These pages are for personal use only. They may not be copied, and the links within them may not be harvested for use on your own web pages. Please see the Copyright Notice.

Copyright © Pat Newby.
January 2007

Kings Lynn

Booth, Robert

King's Lynn an Illustrated Street Directory
1960
[Tricky Sam Publishing: 2010: ISBN 0955426642]

Kelly

Kelly's directory of King's Lynn
1930/34-5/36/54/57/60/62/64/66/68/69/70/71/72/74
[London: Kelly's Directories]

Whittaker

King's Lynn Directory
1846

Notes

Entries are followed by the publishing information where known :
Author, compiler or publisher.
Title or description
Date(s)
[Place published/publisher]

See also the Kings Lynn pages.

Link back to main Gazetteers and Directories page

These pages are for personal use only. They may not be copied, and the links within them may not be harvested for use on your own web pages. Please see the Copyright Notice.

Copyright © Mike Bristow.
September 2011

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

GENERAL HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE
COUNTY OF NORFOLK

MILITARY ORGANISATION

[Transcription copyright © Pat Newby]

Military districts were originally formed in 1792, and were re-formed in 1870, and again in 1882. The regimental districts are a modern subdivision of the county, effected by the Secretary of State for the better management and administration of the affairs connected with the land forces, including the regular army, the militia, and the volunteers.

Each military district is under the command of a general officer, and each regimental district of a colonel. Two battalions of the line, and the militia infantry and the rifle volunteers belonging to each regimental district constitute a brigade. One or other of these battalions of the line is always absent on service in India or some other of the colonies or possessions; the remaining battalion of the line being quartered in some garrison or camp in the United Kingdom.

In many cases a regimental district comprises one entire county, but the larger and more populous counties are divided into two or more regimental districts; and in several cases two or more smaller counties form one regimental district ('Census General Report, 1871').

Norfolk forms a regimental district (No. 9), in the Eastern district (II.), which also comprises Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex (except Tilbury Fort, Purfleet, and Coal House-Point Battery), Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Lincolnshire and Suffolk. The headquarters of the district are at Colchester, and the officer commanding is Major-General R. White, C.B., The troops quartered in the command are - Cavalry, 7th Hussars, Colchester; Artillery, 3rd Brigade, D and E batteries, Ipswich; 4th Brigade, Q Battery, Colchester; No. 1 Battery, Eastern Division, depôt, Eastern Division; Engineers, Commissariat and Transport; Infantry, 1st Battalion Royal Fusiliers, Hounslow; 1st Battalion the Norfolk Regiment.

The ARTILLERY DIVISION has its depôt temporarily at Colchester, Lieut.-Col. H.Y. Wortham.

The ARTILLERY stationed in the Eastern Division are 1st Brigade (Royal Artillery), 2nd Brigade (Prince of Wales's Own Norfolk Artillery Militia), and 3rd Brigade (Suffolk Artillery Militia). The Artillery Volunteer Corps are 1st (Norfolk), 2nd (1st Essex) 3rd (1st Lincolnshire). The 1st Brigade consists of nine batteries, which are stationed at various places. The 2nd (Prince of Wales's Own) is stationed at Yarmouth, and the 3rd at Ipswich.

The officers of the former are - Hon. Col., Field-Marshall H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, K.G.; Lieut.-Col., Lord Suffield, K.C.B.; Instructor of Artillery, Captain E.R.M. Pratt; Adjutant, Capt. Hon. H.C. Denison; Quartermaster, H. Stembridge; Majors, E.M. Alderson, and E.S. Trafford; Captains, T.E. Bagge, W.H.A. Keppel, Sir W.H.B. Ffolkes, E.R.M. Pratt, J.S. Holmes, and F. D'Arcy Newcome; Lieutenants, Sir W. Proctor Beauchamp, Bart.; H.J. Preston, Esq., Lord Hastings, A.C. Dawson, Hon. A.E. Harbord, Sir Seville Crossley, Bart., P. Bennet, Hon. H. Tyrwhitt-Wilson, and R.J. Sheriffe.

The 1st Norfolk Royal Artillery Volunteer Corps (Norfolk and Suffolk) has its headquarters at Great Yarmouth. Hon. Col., Sir E.H.K. Lacon; Lieut.-Col, H.M. Leathes; Major, W.J. Foreman; Captains, H. Seppings, G.L. Coleman, T.B. Steward, T. Wilson, W. Woodhouse, Viscount Dunwich, S. Smith; Lieutenants, G. Archard, J.P. Walton, P.E. Back, J.G. Christian, L.F. Orde, H.W.H. Elwes, E.M.U. Adnams, J.F. Remnant; Adjutant, R.C.E. North (Capt. R.A.); Quartermaster, E. Cooke; Hon. Quartermaster, J.G. Atkinson; Surgeon, T.H. Moxon; Acting Surgeons, W.M. Vores, and E.R. Blackett; Hon. Chaplain, Rev. B. Vaux; Acting Chaplains, Revs. J. Jessopp, and P.L. Cautley.

The headquarters of the NORFOLK REGIMENT (Regimental District No. 9) are at Great Yarmouth, and the regiment comprises 1st and 2nd Battalions (originally 9th Foot), the 1st being at Colchester and the 2nd in Bengal; 3rd Battalion (1st Norfolk Militia) at Norwich; and 4th Battalion (2nd Norfolk Militia) at Great Yarmouth. The uniform is scarlet with white facings. The Volunteer battalions are 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Norfolk. Gen. Sir. H. Bates, K.C.B., is Colonel; and J. Miller, is Lieut.-Col. commanding regimental district.

Third Battalion (1st Norfolk Militia) - Hon. Col., Sir Hambleton F. Custance, K.C.B.; Lieut.-Col., Randall R. Burroughs; Majors, Fred. W. Garnett, and Fred. Hambleton Custance; Captains, J. Campbell, H.E. Gower, R.F. Bros, A. Meller, N. Forte, A.D. Tuck, S.A. Snow, and H. Keppel; Lieutenants, Sir K. Kemp, A.E. Fellowes, H.W. Boileau, G.H. Seymour, C.F. Sewell, C.C. Boileau, C.H. Bulwer Caldwell, W.F.J. North, G.C. Nugent, G.E. Ripley, E.A.E. Bulwer, and W.T. Haughton; Regimental instructor of musketry, Lieut. A.E. Fellowes; Adjutant, Capt. J.B.S. Deverell (2nd Battalion); Quartermaster, Fred. Mills.

Fourth Battalion (2nd Norfolk Militia) - Hon. Col., Sir E.H.K. Lacon, Bart.; Lieut.-Col. Commandant, H. Coldham Mathew; Majors, C. Applewhaite, and E.B.K. Lacon; Captains, J.W. Haines, H.J.C. Haly, J.E. Fryer, Sir C. Harvey, H. Walpole and O.N. Long; Lieutenants, W.C. Barratt, E. Hayward, C.B. Collings, C. Yeatman, H.L. Harper, T.A.A. Schalch, W.H. Gilbert, J. Marriott, and H.T. Mills; Adjutant and Captain, W. Dods; Quartermaster, Albert Reeves.

Volunteer Corps. - 1st City of Norwich - Lieut. Col., G.W. Boileau; Major, C. Foster; Captains, J.R. Fitch, G.F. Buxton, H.T.S. Patteson, H.G. Barclay, and W.A. Miller; Lieutenants, F.W. Skipper, T.J.F. Rackham, H.C. Bolingbroke, J.B. Bridgman, W. Womersley, W.E. Hansell, T.P. Raven, R.A. Harbord, S.G. Hill, and C.E. Gurney; Adjutant, F.A. Cubitt, (Major); Quartermaster, A. Mottram; Surgeon, T.W. Richardson; Hon. Chaplain, Rev. J. Patteson. (Scarlet, and white facings).

Second (Norfolk and Suffolk) Great Yarmouth - Hon. Col., A.J.B. Thelluson; Lieut.-Col., H.E. Buxton; Majors, W.M. Crowfoot, and E.H.H. Combe; Captains, J.S. Clowes, C.P. Skerrett, H. Hartcup, W. Diver, F.W.D. Robinson, J. Taylor, J.T. Bunn, C.S. Orde; Lieutenants, A. Peaton, R.C. Mann, R.H. Inch, J. Read, C.J. Wiltshire, J.P. Larkman, H.W. Youell, and E.H. Wallich; Adjutant, Capt. D.K. Robertson; Quartermaster, C.L. Chipperfield; Surgeon J. Bately; Acting Surgeon, E. Fawcett; Hon. Assistant Surgeon, Dr. W.W. Webb; Hon. Chaplain, Rev. R.M. Marshall: Acting Chaplains, Rev. G. Venables, and Rev. J. Lancaster. (Scarlet, with white facings).

Third (East Dereham) - Hon. Col., Lord Suffield; Lieut.-Col., W.E.G.L. Bulwer, (Hon.-Col); Majors, J. Hollway, and Sir F.G.M. Boileau; Captains, T.L. Reed, S.A. Gurney, C.W. Archdale, W. Matthews, R. Wortley, Rev. C. Norris, H.E. Hyde, A.C. Fountaine, and G.F.A. Cresswell; Lieutenants, R. Sewell, R. Wells, J.J. Nunn, C.W. Croad, W. Seppings, jun., C.R. Dewhirst, C.B. Norgate, H.C. Hollway-Calthrop, E.S. Copeman, A.W. Jarvis, J.G. Neave, B.B. Saywell, H.F. Grigson, L.K. Jarvis, L.J. Jones, W.C. Nash-Woodham, M.R. Stedman, and H.R. Gidney; Adjutant, T.J.B. Dunne; Quartermaster, W.T. Gidney; Surgeon, S.M. Hopson; Acting Surgeons, R.K. Morton, J.K. Milne; Hon. Chaplains, Rev. E.C.K. Bearcroft, B.J. Armstrong, B. Houchen, A. Napier; Acting Chaplain, Rev. H.H. Bridgwater. Cadet Corps - Hon. Lieut. C.W. Croad. (Scarlet, with white facings).

Fourth (Norwich) - Lieut.-Col., R.T. Gurdon, M.P.; Major, R.T. Gwyn; Captains, F. Taylor, W. Edwards, R.G. Burrell, W. Kirk, J.B. Forrester, and Rev. C.H. Fellowes; Lieutenants, T.E. Bond, H. Oake, J.E. Cooke, L.J. Jillings, A.A.W. Bailey, Z. Lane, T.L. Palmer, and W.G. Jillings; Adjutant, K.R.B. Wodehouse; Quartermaster, T. Hart; Surgeon, J.R. Clouting; Hon. Asst. Surgeon, F. Clowes; Acting Surgeon, R.T.H.B. Rodwell; Hon. Chaplains, Rev. J. Cholmeley, and A.F. Smith; Acting Chaplain, Rev. M.W. Currie. (Grey, facings grey).

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See also White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1883.

Copyright © Pat Newby.
January 2007

The County of Norfolk

Gazetteers

Driscoll, R.J. and Hewitt, P.M. (Compilers)

A Gazetteer of Norfolk Place Names
Based on the OS 1:25000 First Series maps
(An alphabetical list of "Place Name" and 6 figure grid references)
[ISBN 0 903101 66 1, Norfolk Museums Service, 1999]

NFHS - Fone, John (Compiler)

The Norfolk Gazetteer with Administrative Areas
(This contains the name of the village, OS map reference, the hundred, deanery, union, old district, new district, and present parish.
Example: Aylsham, map ref TG1926, Erpingham south hundred, Ingworth deanery, Aylsham Union, St Faiths and Aylsham old district, Broadland new district.)
[Norwich Family History Society, 2000]

Gazetteers and Directories

These are mostly published before 1950 and include people as well as places. Those for which online copies exist are linked to directly (mostly Googlebooks) or via the Online Images section. The latter links are indicated by "Noah" for the "Norfolk Sources" and "Historical" for "www.historicaldirectories.org" websites.

Baylis

Who's Who in Norfolk
1935

Cox's

County Who's Who (Cambridgeshire, Norfolk & Suffolk)
1912

Craven & Co

Commercial directory of the County of Norfolk, containing an alphabetical list of the nobility, gentry, merchants, professions, trades, etc.
1856 [Nottingham]
 

Deacon's court guide

• Norfolk
  1885
• Cambridgeshire, Norfolk & Suffolk Directory
  1892/3

Harrod, J.G.

• Harrod's directory of Norfolk and Norwich including Lowestoft
  1863 [London: J. G. Harrold & Co]
  Online images available at :-  Noah
• Postal & Commercial Directory of Norfolk & Norwich
  1868 [Norwich: Harrod]
• J.G. Harrod and Co.s royal county directory of Norfolk, with Lowestoft in Suffolk.
  1872 [Norwich: J.G. Harrod]
• J.G. Harrod and Co.s royal county directory of Norfolk, with Lowestoft in Suffolk.
  1877 [Norwich: J.G. Harrod,4th ed.]
  Online images available at :-  Historical.
• J.G. Harrod and Co.s royal despatch and special directory of Norfolk, with Lowestoft in Suffolk.
  1880 [Norwich: J.G. Harrod]
  Online images available at :-  Noah

Holden's

Annual London and Country Directory of UK+Wales
SECOND VOLUME contains Norwich and Yarmouth
THIRD VOLUME contains Wells-next-the-Sea
1811 [London: W.Holden]
1996 [Norwich: M.Winton facsimile edition:ISBN 1 898593 14 0]
[Database of names (at Ancestry) - Vol 2 contains Norwich, Lynn, Yarmouth]
 

Hunt's

East Norfolk with part of Suffolk
1850
[London: E. Hunt & Co.]
[Cinderford: archivecdbooks,CD #9033P]
Online images available at :-  Historical   &   Noah
 

Kelly, E

• Kelly's directory of Norfolk
  1875
  [Publ: London: Kelly's Directories]
• Kelly's directory of Norfolk
  1879
  [Publ: London: Kelly's Directories]
  [Cinderford: archivecdbooks,CD #0332]
• Kelly's directory of Norfolk
  1888
  [Publ: London: Kelly's Directories]
  [Cinderford: archivecdbooks,CD #0325]
• Kelly's directory of Norfolk
  1892 [Noah]
  [Publ: London: Kelly's Directories]
  [Cinderford: archivecdbooks,CD #9049P]
• Kelly's directory of Norfolk
  1896 (11th ed)
  [London: Kelly's Directories]
  [Cinderford: archivecdbooks,CD #0111]
  Online images available at :-  Historical   &   Noah
• Kelly's directory of Norfolk
  1900 [Noah]
  [Publ: London: Kelly's Directories]
  Online images available at :-  Rodliffe family pages
• Kelly's directory of Norfolk
  1904
  [Publ: London: Kelly's Directories]
  Online images available at :-  Historical   &   Noah
• Kelly's directory of Norfolk
  1908 [Noah]
  [Publ: London: Kelly's Directories]
  [Cinderford: archivecdbooks,CD #1289]
• Kelly's directory of Norfolk
  1912
  [Publ: London: Kelly's Directories]
  [Cinderford: archivecdbooks,CD #0710]
  Online images available at :-  Historical   &   Noah
• Kelly's directory of Norfolk
  1916 [Noah]
  [All publ: London: Kelly's Directories]
  [Cinderford: archivecdbooks,CD #0135]
• Kelly's directory of Norfolk
  1922 [Noah], 1925 [Noah], 1929 (19th ed) [Noah]
  [All publ: London: Kelly's Directories]
• Kelly's directory of Norfolk
  1933 (20th ed)
  [London: Kelly's Directories]
  [Cinderford: archivecdbooks,CD #0165]
• Kelly's directory of Norfolk
  1937
  [London: Kelly's Directories]
• Kelly's directory of the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk
  1892, 1900, 1916 (16th ed), 1922
  [All publ. London: Kelly's Directories.]
• Kelly's directory of the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk
  1925
  [All publ. London: Kelly's Directories.]
  [Lidgate: MM Publications, Index of names on fiche]
• Kelly's directory of the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk
  1929 [Noah], 1937
  [All publ. London: Kelly's Directories.]
• Kelly's directory of the counties of Cambridge, Norfolk and Suffolk: with coloured maps.
  1853, 1865, 1869, 1879, 1883 [Noah], 1888 (9th ed) [Noah]
  [All published: London: Kelly's Directories Ltd.]
• Kelly's directory of the counties of Cambridge, Norfolk and Suffolk: with coloured maps.
  1892
  [Publ: London: Kelly's Directories Ltd.]
  Online images available at :-  Historical
• Kelly's directory of the counties of Cambridge, Norfolk and Suffolk: with coloured maps.
  1896, 1900, 1904 (13th ed), 1912, 1922, 1925, 1929, 1933, 1937
  [All published: London: Kelly's Directories Ltd.]
• Kelly's directory of the counties of Cambridge, Norfolk and Suffolk
  1865: Microfiche Edition
  [Microfi: 1985]

Lewis, S

Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England
1831
[London: S. Lewis & Co., 1831]

• Description and complete transcription
• Transcription of the Norfolk parishes
• Online images available at :-  books.google.co.uk

Mee, Arthur

Norfolk- The King's England Series
[London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1972]

Melville and Co

Norfolk with Suffolk Directory
(inc. Attleborough, Aylsham, Diss, East Dereham, Fakenham, Foulsham, Gt.Yarmouth, Hingham, Norwich, Reepham Swaffham, Thetford, Wymondham)
1856
[Norwich: Jarrold and Sons]
Online images available at :-  Noah
 

Pigot

• Pigot and Company's London and provincial new commercial directory, 1822-3
  1822 [Manchester: the Company]
  [Cinderford: archivecdbooks,CD #0517n]
• Pigot National Commercial directory - Norfolk & Suffolk
  1830, 1840
  1830 [Catton Printing: Facsimilie Edition 1992 by M.Winton :ISBN 0 9504069 2 9]
  [Cinderford: archivecdbooks,CD #0275]
  Online images available at :-  Noah
• Norfolk Directory
  1835
• Norfolk Directory
  1839
  [Lidgate: MM Publications, Index of names on fiche]
  [Cinderford: archivecdbooks,CD #0946]
  Online images available at :-  Noah

Post Office (see also Kelly)

• Directory of the Counties of Cambridge, Norfolk & Suffolk.
  1858, 1865
  [All published: London: Kelly's Directories Ltd.]
  Online images (for 1858) available at :-  Noah
• The Post Office Directory of Norfolk & Suffolk.
  1865
  [London: Kelly's Directories Ltd.]
  Online images available at :-  books.google.co.uk
• Directory of the Counties of Cambridge, Norfolk & Suffolk.
  1869
  [Publ: London: Kelly's Directories Ltd.]
  Online images available at :-  Historical
• Directory of the Counties of Cambridge, Norfolk & Suffolk.
  1875, 1879
  [All published: London: Kelly's Directories Ltd.]
• Directory of the County of Norfolk
  1875 [E.Kelly]
  Online images available at :-  Noah
• Post Office directory of London and Nine Counties - Cambridgeshire, Norfolk & Suffolk with Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex. (Vol 2)
  1846 [Kelly, W]
  Online images available at :-  Noah

Riches

A history of the county of Norfolk, comprehending historical, statistical, topographical descriptions of Norwich, Yarmouth, Lynn, Thetford, the market towns, and of every parish and village in the county, to which will be added A complete directory, with the hundred, ecclesiastical, Poor Law, and police district divisions, and the seats and lineage of the county nobility and gentry
1844
Online images available at :-  Noah

Robson

National Directory
1839
Online images available at :-  Historical

Slater, Isaac

Slater's royal national and commercial directory and topography of the counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire,and Suffolk.
1850 [Manchester: Isaac Slater]
Online images available at :-  Noah

Universal

The Universal British Directory
1793-98
[ISBN 1898593000: Reprinted by M.Winton 1993]
[Cinderford: archivecdbooks,CD #1134nfk]

Whatley, Stephen

Stephen Whatley's Gazetteer of England
1750
[London: J. and P. Knapton, 1751]

• Description and complete transcription
• Transcription of the Norfolk parishes
• Online images available at :-  books.google.co.uk

White, Francis and Company

History, gazetteer and directory of Norfolk and the city and county of Norwich, comprising a general survey of the county.
1854 [Sheffield: White]
[Cinderford: archivecdbooks,CD #0345]
Online images available at :-   Historical  ,  Noah   &   books.google.co.uk
 

White, William

• History, gazetteer and directory of Norfolk: including the city of Norwich and comprising a general survey of the county.
  1836 (1st ed)
  [Sheffield: William White.]
  Online images available at :-  books.google.co.uk   &   Noah
• History, gazetteer and directory of Norfolk: including the city of Norwich and comprising a general survey of the county.
  1845 (2nd ed)
  [Sheffield: William White.]
  1845 [Newton Abbot: David & Charles reprint 1969]
  1845 [Cinderford: archivecdbooks,CD #0815]
  Online images available at :-  books.google.co.uk   &   Noah
• History, gazetteer and directory of Norfolk: including the city of Norwich and comprising a general survey of the county.
  1864 (3rd ed)
  [Sheffield: William White.]
  [Cinderford: archivecdbooks,CD #1213]
  [Copy at archive.org]
  Online images available at :-  Noah
• History, gazetteer and directory of Norfolk: including the city of Norwich and comprising a general survey of the county.
  1883 (4th ed)
  [Sheffield: William White.]
  1883 [Cinderford: archivecdbooks,CD #0709]
  Online images available at :-  Noah
• History, gazetteer and directory of Norfolk: including the city of Norwich and comprising a general survey of the county.
  1890 (5th ed)
  [Sheffield: William White.]
  Online images available at :-  Historical   &   Noah

Online Images

Online images as indicated in the above list are linked to just once below.

1. Noah - Items marked as such are accessible via the Norfolk Sources website.
2. Historical Directories - (University of Leicester).
3. books.google.co.uk - Note that individual links to each directory are given in text above.

Transcriptions

Check in the

• Towns and Parishes pages for these - mainly from Whites 1845 and 1883 Norfolk.

Other entries include:-

• Hundred descriptions:
  • Directories-Whites 1845

Notes

• Entries in the above lists are followed by the publishing information where known in the following layout:
  Author, compiler or publisher.
  Title or description
  Date(s)
  [Place published/publisher]
• After some will be see the letters CD which means that it is available on a CDROM.

Link back to main Gazetteers and Directories page

These pages are for personal use only. They may not be copied, and the links within them may not be harvested for use on your own web pages. Please see the Copyright Notice.

Copyright © Mike Bristow.
February 2015

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

GENERAL HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE
COUNTY OF NORFOLK

PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION OF THE COUNTY AND OF THE BOROUGHS

[Transcription copyright © Pat Newby]

Before the passing of the Reform Bill, in 1832, Norfolk sent twelve representatives to Parliament, namely, two for the county, two for the city of Norwich, and two for each of the boroughs of Yarmouth, Lynn, Thetford, and Castle Rising; but by that Act Castle Rising was disfranchised, and the county was divided into two divisions, each sending two knights to Parliament.

Thetford and Yarmouth have since been disfranchised, the former by 31-32 Vict. c. 48 s. 43, and the latter by 30-31 Vict. c. 102 s. 12; and the county was further divided by the Reform Act of 1867 into West, South, and North divisions, each returning two members.

The following table shows the area of each division and borough, with their population in 1881 and the number of electors in 1883.

* For constituent parts see the description of each place, given subsequently. [Not yet transcribed].

These pages are for personal use only. They may not be copied, and the links within them may not be harvested for use on your own web pages. Please see the Copyright Notice.

See also White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1883.

Copyright © Pat Newby.
November 2006

City of Norwich

Berry C.

Norwich Directory
1810
[Project Gutenberg eBook]

Blyth, G.K.

Norwich Directory
1842

Chase, W. & Co

The Norwich directory or Gentlemen and Tradesmens Assistant
1783 [Norwich W.Chase & Co]
1783 [Catton Printing :Facsimile edition reprinted by M.Winton 1991 :ISBN 0 9504069 1 0]
[CDROM]

Colman

Norwich Directory
1877

Eyre

Norwich Directory
1883

Goose & Son Ltd

The New Directory of Norwich
1914

Hamilton

Norwich Directory
1879

Jarrold & Sons

Directory of the City of Norwich
1886, 1889, 1894, 1896, 1900, 1905, 1908 1911, 1913, 1914, 1922
[All published: Norwich, Jarrold & Sons]

Kelly

Kelly's directory of Norwich
1922/24/25/26/27/29/31/33/35/37/39/41
1947/50/52/54/56/58/60 --> 1975
[All published: Kingston upon Thames: Kelly's]

Mason

Norwich General & Commercial Directory & Handbook
1852
[London: Mason]

Mathieson

Norwich Directory
1867

Peck, Thomas

The Norwich directory: containing an alphabetical list of the principal inhabitants, their addresses, profession, or trade
1802
[Norwich: Payne]

Roger's

Norwich & neighbourhood Directory
1859

Simpson

Norwich Directory
1864

White, William

Directory of Norwich, comprising pp485-714 of Norfolk directory.
1890
[Facsimilie edition by M.Winton 1988]

Notes

Entries are followed by the publishing information where known :
Author, compiler or publisher.
Title or description
Date(s)
[Place published/publisher]

See also the Norwich pages.

Link back to main Gazetteers and Directories page

These pages are for personal use only. They may not be copied, and the links within them may not be harvested for use on your own web pages. Please see the Copyright Notice.

Copyright © Mike Bristow.
April 2011

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

GENERAL HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE
COUNTY OF NORFOLK

PETTY SESSIONAL DIVISIONS

[Transcription copyright © Pat Newby]

PETTY SESSIONAL DIVISIONS. - These divisions, for holding special and petty sessions, are in general based upon the hundreds and other old county sub-divisions.

Text and table showing areas and populations to be transcribed.

The following is an enumeration of the places in each division:-

BLOFIELD AND WALSHAM

Blofield, Bradestone, Brundall, Buckenham Ferry, Burlingham St. Andrew, Burlingham St. Edmund, Burlingham St. Peter, Cantley, Freethorpe, Hassingham, Limpenhoe, Lingwood, Plumstead Great, Plumstead Little, Postwick, Southwood, Strumpshaw, Thorpe-next-Norwich, Witton. Acle, Beighton, Halvergate, Hemblington, Moulton, Ranworth-with-Pansworth [sic], Reedham, Tunstall, Upton-with-Fishley, Walsham South, Wickhampton, Woodbastwick.

CLACKCLOSE

Barton-Bendish, Bexwell, Boughton, Crimplesham, Denver, Dereham West, Downham Market, Fincham, Fordham, Hilgay, Holme-next-Runcton, Markham [sic], Outwell (Norfolk), Roxham, Runcton South, Ryston, Shouldham, Shouldham Thorpe, Southery, Stoke Ferry, Stow Bardolph, Stradsett, Tottenhill, Upwell (Norfolk), Welney (Norfolk), Wallington and Thorpland, Watlington, Wereham, Wimbotsham, Wormegay, Wretton, part of the parishes of Feltwell and Methwold, and Redmere.

DEPWADE

Ashwellthorpe, Aslacton, Bunwell, Carleton Rode, Forncett St. Mary, Forncett St. Peter, Fritton, Fundenhall, Hapton, Hardwick, Hempnall, Morningthorpe, Moulton St. Michael, Shelton, Stratton St. Mary, Stratton St. Michael, Talconestone [sic, ie Tacolneston], Tasburgh, Tharston, Tibenham, Wacton Magna and Parva.

DISS

Bressingham, Burston, Dickleburgh, Diss, Fersfield, Frenze, Gissing, Roydon, Scole or Osmondiston, Shelfanger, Shimpling, Thelveton, Thorpe Parva, Tivetshall St. Margaret, Tivetshall St. Mary, Winfarthing.

EARSHAM

Alburgh, Billingford, Brockdish, Denton, Earsham, Langmere, Mendham (part of), Needham, Pulham St. Mary Magdalen or Pulham Market, Pulham St. Mary the Virgin, Redenhall, Harleston, Rushall, Starston, Thorpe Abbott, Wortwell.

ERPINGHAM NORTH

Aldborough, Antingham, Aylmerton, Baconsthorpe, Barningham-Norwood, Barningham Winter or Town, Beckham East, Beckham West, Beeston Regis, Bessingham, Cromer, Felbrigg, Gimingham, Gresham, Gunton, Hanworth, Knapton, Matlask, Metton, Mundesley, Northrepps, Overstrand, Plumstead, Roughton, Runton, Sherringham, Sidestrand, Southrepps, Suffield, Sustead, Thorpe Market, Thurgarton, Trimingham, and Trunch.

ERPINGHAM SOUTH

Alby, Aylsham, Barningham, Barningham Parva, Belaugh, Blickling, Booton, Brampton, Burgh St. Mary, Buxton, Calthorpe, Cawston, Colby, Coltishall, Corpusty, Erpingham, Hautbois Magna, Hevingham, Heydon, Ingworth, Irmingland, Itteringham, Lammas-with-Hautbois Parva, Mannington, Marsham, Oulton, Oxnead, Saxthorpe, Scottow, Skeyton, Stratton-Strawless, Swanton-Abbott, Thwaite All Saints, Tuttington, Wickmere, Wolterton.

EYNSFORD

Alderford, Bawdeswell, Billingford, Bintry or Bintree, Brandistone, Bylaugh, Elsing, Foulsham, Foxley, Guestwick, Guist, Hackford-next-Reepham, Haveringland or Haverland, Hindolveston, Kerdiston, Lyng, Morton-on-the-Hill, Reepham, Ringland, Sall, Sparham, Swannington, Themelthorpe, Thurning, Twyford, Weston-Longville, Whitwell, Witchingham Great, Witchingham Little, Wood Dalling, Wood Norton.

FLEGG (EAST AND WEST)

Caister-next-Yarmouth, Filby, Mantby [sic, ie Mautby], Ormesby St. Margaret-with-Scratby, Ormesby St. Michael, Runham, Runham Vauxhall, Stokesby-with-Herringby, Thrigby, Yarmouth Great. Ashby-with-Oby, Billockby, Burgh St. Margaret, Clippesby, Hemsby, Martham, Repps-with-Bastwick, Rollesby, Somerton East, Somerton West, Thirne or Thurne, Winterton.

FOREHOE

Barford, Barnham Broom, Bawburgh, Bowthorpe, Brandon Parva, Carleton Forehoe, Colton, Cossey or Costessey, Coston, Crownthorpe, Deopham, Easton, Hackford, Hingham, Honingham, Kimberley, Marlingford, Morley St. Botolph, Morley St. Peter, Runhall, Welborne, Wicklewood, Wramplingham, Wymondham Parish comprising Downham, Market Street, Silfield, Suton, Town Green, Wattlefield.

FREEBRIDGE LYNN

Anmer, Ashwicken, Babingley, Bawsey, Bilney West, Castle Acre, Castle Rising, Congham, Dersingham, Flitcham-with-Appleton, Gayton, Gayton-Thorpe, Gaywood, Grimstone, Harpley, Hillington, Leziate, Massingham Great, Massingham Little, Middleton, Mintlyn, Newton (West), Pentney, Roydon, Runcton North with Hardwick, Sandringham, Setchey, Walton (East), West Acre, Winch East, Winch West, Wolferton, Wootton North, Wootton South.

FREEBRIDGE MARSHLAND

Clenchwarton, Emneth, Lynn North St. Edmund, Lynn West St. Peter, Terrington St. Clement, Terrington St. John, Tilney All Saints, Tilney cum Islington, Tilney St. Lawrence, Walpole St. Andrew, Walpole St. Peter, Walsoken, Walton West, Wiggenhall St. Germans, Wiggenhall St. Magdalen [sic], Wiggenhall St. Mary the Virgin, Wiggenhall St. Peter, Wingland.

GALLOW

Alethorpe, Bagthorpe, Barmer, Barsham East, Barsham North, Barsham West, Broomsthorpe, Croxton, Dunton, Fakenham, Lancaster, Fulmodestone, Helhoughton, Hempton, Houghton, Kettlestone, Pensthorpe, Pudding Norton, Raynham East, Raynham South, Raynham West, Rudham East, Rudham West, Ryburgh Great, Ryburgh Little, Sculthorpe, Shereford, Snoring Little, Stibbard, Syderstone, Tatterford, Tattersett, Testerton, Toft Trees.

GREENHOE (NORTH)

Barney, Binham, Cockthorpe, Egmere, Field Dalling, Hindringham, Holkham, Houghton-in-the-Dale, Quarles, Snoring Great, Stiffkey, Thursford, Walsingham Great, Walsingham Little, Warham All Saints, Warham St. Mary, Wells-next-the-Sea, Wighton.

GREENHOE (SOUTH)

Bodney, Bradenham East, Bradenham West, Caldecot, Cockley-Cley, Cressingham Great, Cressingham Little, Foulden, Gooderstone, Hilborough, Holme-Hale, Houghton-on-the-Hill, Narborough, Narford, Necton, Newton-by-Castleacre, Oxborough, Pickenham North, Pickenham South, Shingham, Southacre, Sporle-with-Palgrave, Beechamwell, Swaffham.

GRIMSHOE

Buckenham-near-Tofts (or Parva), Colveston, Cranwich, Croxton, Feltwell St. Mary and St. Nicholas, Hockwold-cum-Wilton, Igborough, Lynford, Methwold, Mundford, Northwold, Whittington, Santon House, Stanford, Sturston, Tofts West, Weeting-with-Broomhill, Didlington, Langford.

GUILTCROSS AND SHROPHAM

Banham, Blo-Norton, Garboldisham, Gasthorpe, Harling (East), Harling (West), Kenninghall, Lopham (North), Lopham (South), Quiddenham, Riddlesworth, Rushford (part of), Snare Hill, Attleborough, Besthorpe, Brettenham, Bridgham, Buckenham (New), Buckenham (Old), Eccles, Ellingham (Great), Hargham, Hockham, Illington, Kilverstone, Larling, Rockland All Saints, Rockland St. Andrew, Roudham, Shropham, Snetterton, Wilby, Wretham (East), Wretham (West).

HAPPING AND TUNSTEAD

Brumstead, Catfield, Eccles, Happisburgh, Hempstead, Hickling, Horsey-next-the-Sea, Ingham, Lessingham, Ludham, Palling-near-the-Sea, Potter-Heigham, Ruston (East), Stalham, Sutton, Walcott, Waxham, Ashmanhaugh, Bacton, Barton Turf, Beeston St. Lawrence, Bradfield, Crostwight, Dilham, Edingthorpe, Felmingham, Honing, Horning, Hoveton St. John, Hoveton St. Peter, Irstead, Neatishead, Paston, Ridlington, Sco Ruston or South Ruston, Sloley, Smallburgh, Swafield, Tunstead, Walsham North, Westwick, Witton, Worstead.

HOLT

Bale, Blakeney, Bodham, Briningham, Brinton, Brisley, Cley-next-the-Sea, Edgefield, Glandford-with-Bayfield, Gunthorpe, Hempstead, Holt, Hunworth, Kelling, Langham, Letheringsett, Melton Constable with Burgh Parva, Morston, Salthouse, Saxlingham, Sharrington, Stody, Swanton Novers, Thornage, Weybourne, Wiveton.

LODDON AND CLAVERING

Alpington, Ashby, Bedingham, Broome, Carleton St. Peter, Chedgrave, Claxton, Ditchingham, Hardley, Hedenham, Hillington, Kirstead, Langley, Loddon, Mundham, Seething, Sisland, Thurton, Thwaite St. Mary, Topcroft, Woodton, Yelverton. Aldeby, Brooke, Burgh Apton, Burgh St. Peter, Ellingham, Geldeston, Gillingham All Saints, Gillingham St. Mary, Haddiscoe, Hales, Heckingham, Howe, Kirby-Cane, Norton-Subcourse, Raveningham, Stockton, Thorpe-next-Haddiscoe, Thurlton, Toft Monks, Wheatacre All Saints.

MITFORD AND LAUNDITCH

Southbergh, Cranworth, Dereham (East), Garvestone, Hardingham, Hockering, Letton, Mattishall, Mattishall Bergh, Reymerston, Shipdham, Thuxton, Tuddenham (East), Tuddenham (North), Westfield, Whinbergh, Wood Rising, Yaxham. Beeston-next-Mileham, Beetley, Bilney (East), Bittering Parva, Brisley, Colkirk, Dillington, Dunham (Great), Dunham (Little), Elmham (North), Fransham (Great), Fransham (Little), Gateley, Gressenhall, Hoe, Horningtoft, Kempston, Lexham (East), Lexham (West), Litcham, Longham, Mileham, Oxwick, Pattersley, Rougham, Scarning, Stanfield, Swanton-Morley, Tittleshall-with-Godwick, Weasenham All Saints, Weasenham St. Peter, Wellingham, Wendling, Whissonsett, Worthing.

SMITHDON AND BROTHERCROSS

Barwick, Bircham (Great), Bircham Newton, Bircham Tofts, Brancaster, Choseley, Docking, Fring, Heacham, Holme-next-the-Sea, Hunstanton, Ingoldsthorpe, Ringstead (Great), St. Andrew and St. Peter, Sedgeford, Shernborne, Snettisham, Stanhoe, Thornham, Titchwell, Burnham Deepdale, Burnham Norton, Burnham Overy, Burnham Thorpe, Burnham Sutton-cum-Burnham Ulph, Burnham Westgate, Creake (North), Creake (South), Waterden.

SWAINSTHORPE

Arminghall, Bixley, Bramerton, Caister St. Edmunds, Framingham-Earl, Framingham Pigot, Holverstone, Kirby-Bedon, Poringland, Rockland St. Mary, Saxlingham Nethergate, Saxlingham Thorpe, Shottesham All Saints, Shottesham St. Mary and St. Martin, Stoke-Holy-Cross, Surlingham, Trowse Newton, Whitlingham, Bracon-Ash, East Carleton, Colney, Cringleford, Dunston, Flordon, Hethel, Hethersett, Intwood, Keswick, Ketteringham, Markshall, Melton Magna, Melton Parva, Mulbarton, Newton-Flotman, Swainsthorpe, Swardeston, Wrenningham.

TAVERHAM

Attlebridge, Beeston St. Andrew, Catton, Crostwick, Drayton, Felthorpe, Frettenham, Hainford, Hellesdon, Horsford, Horsham St. Faith, Horstead, Newton St. Faith, Rackheath, Salhouse, Spixworth, Sprowston, Taverham, Wroxham.

WAYLAND

Ashill, Breckles, Carbrooke, Caston, Ellingham (Little), Griston, Merton, Ovington, Rockland St. Peter, Saham Toney, Scoulton, Stow Bedon, Thompson, Threxton, Tottington, Watton.

See also White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1883
and Towns and Parishes where there are links to most of these places.

These pages are for personal use only. They may not be copied, and the links within them may not be harvested for use on your own web pages. Please see the Copyright Notice.

Copyright © Pat Newby.
November 2006

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

GENERAL HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE
COUNTY OF NORFOLK

RAILWAYS

[Transcription copyright © Pat Newby]

Norfolk is traversed in all directions by railways, principally belonging to the Great Eastern system. Under an Act passed in 1862, the Eastern Counties, Norfolk, Newmarket, Eastern Union, East Anglian, Wells and Fakenham, and East Suffolk Railway Companies were amalgamated. Since then the East Norfolk Railway Company has been amalgamated with the Great Eastern.

From Norwich, the capital of the county, are two main lines to London, the one running through Trowse, Hethersett, Wymondham, Attleborough, Eccles, Harling, and Thetford, to Ely and Cambridge; and the other through Swainsthorpe, Flordon, Forncett, Tivetshall, Burston, and Diss, to Ipswich and Colchester. These lines have a separate terminus at Norwich, the one at Thorpe, and the other at St. Stephen's Gate, Norwich, but they are connected by a loop line, running through Lakenham, a mile to the south-east of the city.

From these main lines are several important branches. One from Wymondham to Wells runs northward through Kimberley, Hardingham, Thuxton and Yaxham, to Dereham, a junction station, and thence to Elmham, Ryburgh, Fakenham, Walsingham, and Wells. From Dereham there is a line running westward through Wendling, Fransham, Dunham, Swaffham, Narborough, Bilney, and Middleton, to Lynn. From Lynn, there is a line running south through Watlington, Downham, and Denver to Ely; and from this line on the west is a branch to Wisbech, and on the east to Stoke Ferry. North of Lynn is the Lynn and Hunstanton Line, worked by the Great Eastern, running through N. Wootton, Wolferton, Dersingham, Snettisham, and Heacham to Hunstanton. From Heacham is a line passing through Sedgeford, Docking, Burnham, and Holkham to Wells, where it joins the line from Wells to Wymondham, which in 1880 was put in connection with the Ipswich and Colchester line to London, by the construction of a short line from Wymondham through Ashwellthorpe to Forncett. From Swaffham a line, which has been taken over by the Great Eastern, runs through Holm Hale, Ashill, Watton, and Wretham, to Roudham, where it effects a junction with the main line to London via Cambridge, and with the Thetford and Bury line.

The Great Eastern system has been of late years much extended in East Norfolk, first by the construction of a line from Norwich to Cromer through Salhouse, Wroxham, Worstead, North Walsham, and Gunton; and secondly by a line between this and the Wells and Wymondham line, running from Wroxham through Coltishall, Buxton, Lamas, Aylsham, Cawston, Reepham, and Foulsham to Broom Green, near Elmham. In addition to the old line from Norwich to Yarmouth, through Whitlingham, Brundall, Buckenham, Santley [should be Cantley], and Reedham, the Great Eastern have now just completed another railway branching therefrom at Brundall, and running through Acle and along the Bure Valley to Yarmouth. From Reedham there is a branch line to Lowestoft, by way of Haddiscoe, where it is crossed by the East Suffolk line, which runs from Southtown station at Yarmouth through the Suffolk Hundreds of Mutford and Lothingland to Beccles and Halesworth. From Beccles, along a portion of the southern boundary of Norfolk, is another Great Eastern branch, the Waveney Valley, which passes through Bungay, Earsham, Redenhall, Harleston, and Pulham to Tivetshall, on the main line from Norwich to London, via Ipswich. The number of miles of line in Norfolk belonging to or worked by the Great Eastern is about 310.

During the last few years two other companies have obtained powers to construct lines in Norfolk: the Yarmouth and North Norfolk Light Railway Company, and the Lynn and Fakenham Railway Company. The former constructed a line from Yarmouth to Caister, Ormesby, Hemsby, Martham, Potter Heigham, Catfield, Stalham, and North Walsham; and the other a line from Lynn to Grimston, Hillington, Massingham, Reedham [probably Rougham], Raynham, and Fakenham. In 1880 and 1881 powers were given to the Lynn and Fakenham Railway Company by Parliament to extend their line from Fakenham to Thursford, Melton, Saxthorpe, Aylsham, Felmingham, and North Walsham, effecting a junction with the Yarmouth and North Norfolk Company; from Melton to Hindolvestone, Guestwick, Whitwell, Lenwade, Attlebridge, Drayton, Cossey, Hellesdon, and Norwich; from Melton (northward) to Holt and Kelling, with branches to Weybourne, Sherringham, Runton, and Cromer, and another branch to Salthouse, Cley, and Blakeney. These companies, amalgamated in 1882, as the Eastern and Midlands Company, have 125 miles of line in the county.

The Midland and Great Northern have a joint line running into the county at Lynn from Lincolnshire.

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Great Yarmouth

(often including Gorleston & Southtown, which were in Suffolk)

Cobb

Great Yarmouth Directory
1863
[Great Yarmouth: Wm Cobb & Co]

Cook

Cook's directory of Great Yarmouth (includes Gorleston and Southtown)
1886
[Lowestoft: George S. Cook]

Cook

Cook's directory of Great Yarmouth (includes Gorleston and Southtown)
1894
[Cook]
[Cinderford: archivecdbooks,CD #0909]

Kelly

Kelly's directory of Great Yarmouth, Gorleston, Southtown and neighbourhood.
1911/15/21/22/23/24/27/30/34/36/38/48/52/55/57/59/61/63/65/67
[Most published: Kingston upon Thames: Kelly's Directories]

Morris & Co

Suffolk with Great Yarmouth
Commercial directory and gazetteer of Suffolk with Great Yarmouth and Newmarket
1868
[Morris & Co]

Steer

Great Yarmouth Directory
A Commercial & Directory of the Town and Borough of Great Yarmouth, includes Gorleston and Southtown
1878
[Charles Steer]

Notes

Entries are followed by the publishing information where known :
Author, compiler or publisher.
Title or description
Date(s)
[Place published/publisher]

See also the Great Yarmouth pages.

Link back to main Gazetteers and Directories page

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

GENERAL HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE
COUNTY OF NORFOLK

(Page 114)

OCCUPATIONS - From the Census Return of 1871

[Transcription copyright © Pat Newby]

OCCUPATION - MALES. - The following are some of the principal occupations:-

Professional Class:

clergymen, 684: Protestant ministers, 184; Roman Catholic priests, 11; barristers, 26; solicitors, 216; physicians and surgeons, 235; chemists and druggists, 330; artists, &c., 110; schoolmasters and teachers, 504.

Domestic Class:

publicans, 1606; beersellers, 100; domestic servants, 3502.

Commercial Class:

bankers, 16; accountants, 142; clerks, 603; shopkeepers, 815; hawkers, 828; bargemen, 603; shipowners, 44; seamen, 2713; pilots, 49.

Agricultural Class:

farmers and graziers, 6029; farmers' sons, brothers, grandsons, nephews, 1312; farm bailiffs, 892; agricultural labourers, 41,269; shepherds, 1186; farm servants (indoor), 351; agricultural machine proprietors and attendants, 116; arboriculturists, 236; horticulturists, 2245; fishermen, 1838.

Industrial Class:

printers, 505; watchmakers, 277; engineers, 647; millwrights, 104; coachmakers, 498; wheelwrights, 860; saddlers, 501; shipbuilders, 477; builders, 338; carpenters and joiners, 4033; bricklayers, 3061; plumbers, 1280; cabinetmakers, 622; woolstaplers and woollen goods manufacturers, 144; silk manufacturers, &c., 437; flax and linen manufacturers, 171; drapers, 750; tailors, 1788; shoemakers, 6361; ropemakers, 379; cowkeepers, 174; butchers, 1235; fishmongers, 476; corn merchants, 374; millers, 1334; bakers, 1161; maltsters, 482; brewers, 530; wine and spirit merchants, 133; grocers and tea dealers, 1668; sawyers, 399; thatchers, 197; brickmakers and dealers, 895; iron manufacturers, 523; whitesmiths, 238; blacksmiths, 2522

FEMALES.-

 

Schoolmistresses and governesses, 2315; publicans and beersellers, 374; general domestic servants, 12,688; housekeepers, 3243; cooks, 1820; housemaids, 2184; nurses, 1496; charwomen, 2074; shopkeepers, 501; farmers and graziers, 444; farmers' daughters, granddaughters, nieces, 2413; agricultural labourers (indoor), 1277; silk manufacturers, &c., 1861; tailoresses, 1043; dressmakers, 6759; shirtmakers, 942; shoemakers, 1360; grocers, 324.

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

GENERAL HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE
COUNTY OF NORFOLK

Description of the County

[Transcription copyright © Pat Newby]

NORFOLK, the most eastern division of England, is an extensive maritime county, comprising 412,664 inhabitants, and about 1,300,000 acres of land, divided into thirty-three Hundreds, and about 740 Parishes, - including the City of Norwich, which forms, with its precincts, a Town and County of itself. Compared with the other counties of England, it ranks the fourth in territorial extent, and the eighth in population.

It is celebrated for the diversity and high cultivation of its soil; for the abundance and excellence of its agricultural productions; for its crape, bombasin, and other manufactures of silk and worsted; for its herring and mackerel fisheries; and for its numerous antiquities, market towns, villages and parishes; but in some cases. two or three of the latter are united either ecclesiastically, or for the support of the poor.

It lies between 52 deg. 17 min. and 52 deg. 56 min. North Latitude, and 1 min. and 1 deg. 45 min. East Longitude from the meridian of Greenwich; - being of an oval figure, extending about 70 miles from east to west, and 42 miles in the broadest parts from north to south. It is about 180 miles in circumference, and the northern half of it is bounded by the German Ocean and the Great Estuary, called The Wash; whilst its southern side is divided from Suffolk by the Waveney and Little Ouse rivers; and from Cambridgeshire, chiefly by the Great Ouse, Welney, and Nene, - the latter of which, as well as the Great Ouse, falls into the Metaris Æstuarium, or The Wash, which divides Norfolk from Lincolnshire. Thus surrounded by marine and river boundaries, Norfolk may be considered almost an island.

Though it is generally considered a champaign district, the surface in many places, rises in bold undulations, and sinks into picturesque vales, especially in the centre of the county, and on the coast, which is nearly 90 miles in extent from Yarmouth to Lynn, and has near Cromer and Hunstanton lofty perpendicular cliffs.

A large portion of the southern side of the county is in flat but well cultivated marshes; and in the western and some other parts are extensive tracts of light sandy land, rising boldly from the marshes and fens, which are now well drained, and many of them highly productive. Though nearly 200,000 acres of commons and sandy heaths have been enclosed during the last 70 years, there are still in different parts of the county, extensive open sheep walks, and rabbit warrens, in some places much improved by thriving plantations.

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

The full text on the title page is as follows. The fonts have not been reproduced.

HISTORY, GAZETTEER, AND DIRECTORY
OF
NORFOLK,
AND THE
CITY AND COUNTY OF THE CITY OF NORWICH;
Comprising, under a lucid Arrangement of Subjects,
A General Survey of the County of Norfolk,
AND THE DIOCESE OF NORWICH;
WITH SEPARATE
Historical, Statistical, & Topographical
DESCRIPTIONS OF ALL THE
HUNDREDS, LIBERTIES, UNIONS,
BOROUGHS, TOWNS, PORTS,
PARISHES, VILLAGES, HAMLETS, & MANORS,
SHEWING THEIR EXTENT AND POPULATION;
Their Agriculture, Manufactures, Fisheries, Markets, Fairs, Natural Productions, &c.; their Eminent Men; the Lords of the Manors and Owners of the Soil and Tithes; the Patrons and Incumbents of the Church Livings; the Antiquities, Public Charities, and Institutions; the Civil and Ecclesiastical Jurisdictions; the Names and Addresses of the principal Inhabitants; the
Seats of Nobility and Gentry;
MAGISTRATES & PUBLIC OFFICERS,
And a Variety of other
COMMERCIAL, AGRICULTURAL, & STATISTICAL INFORMATION.
In One Volume, with a Map of the County.
_____

Second Edition.
_____

BY WILLIAM WHITE,
AUTHOR OF SIMILIAR WORKS FOR MANY OTHER COUNTIES.
____________________

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR,
BY ROBT. LEADER, INDEPENDENT OFFICE, SHEFFIELD;
And Sold by W. WHITE, 200, Brook Hill, Sheffield;
BY HIS AGENTS, AND THE BOOKSELLERS.
Price to Subscribers, 13s. 6d. in Calf Binding, or 12s. in Boards.
1845.

The title page is followed by the following sections. They are gradually being transcribed and put online - see the links. Note that the places are linked from Index of Places, whereas in the book they are located within their separate hundreds. This is simply to avoid adding about 750 links to this page.

• Preface
• Table of Distances from London
• Index of Places
  
  • The index is not online, but there are many transcriptions of individual places.
    See the Towns and Parishes pages.
• Index of Subjects
• Index to the History of Lynn
• Index to the History of Yarmouth
• General History and Description of the County of Norfolk
  This part of the book consists of about 36 pages, and transcriptions will be put online as each section is done.
  • Page 13: Description of the County
  • Page 17: Parliamentary Divisions
  • Page 33: Railways, Turnpikes and Roads
  • Page 38: Members of Parliament
  • Page 39: Peers, Honourables and Baronets
• Norwich Index of Subjects
• History of the City and County of the City of Norwich
• Norwich Directory
• History of the Borough and Port of Yarmouth
• Yarmouth Directory, including South Town and Gorleston
• East and West Flegg Hundreds
  • All of the entries for the Hundreds have been transcribed.
    See the Hundreds page.
• Mitford Hundred
• Launditch Hundred
• Eynesford Hundred
• Wayland Hundred
• South Greenhoe Hundred
• Grimshoe Hundred
• Borough of Thetford
• Shropham Hundred
• Guiltcross Hundred
• Forehoe Hundred
• South Erpingham Hundred
• Tunstead Hundred
• Walsham Hundred
• Blofield Hundred (part 1)
• King's Lynn, or Lynn Regis
• King's Lynn Directory
• Freebridge Marshland Hundred
• Freebridge-Lynn Hundred
• Clackclose Hundred
• Smithdon Hundred
• Gallow Hundred
• Brothercross Hundred
• North Greenhoe Hundred
• Blofield Hundred (part 2)
• Humbleyard Hundred
• Depwade Hundred
• Diss Hundred
• Earsham Hundred
• Holt Hundred
• North Erpingham Hundred
• Happing Hundred
• Taverham Hundred
• Henstead Hundred
• Loddon Hundred
• Clavering Hundred
• Additions and Alterations

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GENERAL HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE
COUNTY OF NORFOLK

MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT.
(With their Town Residences.)

EAST NORFOLK:-

Edmund Wodehouse, Esq.;
and H.N. Burroughes, Esq., Limmer's Hotel, Conduit street.

WEST NORFOLK:-

William Bagge, Esq., Carlton Club;
and W.L.W. Chute, Esq., 24, Portland place.

NORWICH:-

Marquis of Douro, 13, Upper Belgrave street;
and Benjamin Smith, Esq., 5, Blandford square

KING'S LYNN:-

Lord George Bentinck, 19, Cavendish square;
and Viscount Jocelyn, 35, Curzon street.

GREAT YARMOUTH:-

C.E. Rumbold, Esq.;
and Wm. Wilshere, Esq., Reform Club.

THETFORD:-

Sir James Flower, Bart., Piccadilly;
and Hon. Wm. Bingham Baring, 12, Great Stanhope-street.

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GENERAL HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE
COUNTY OF NORFOLK

Parliamentary Divisions

[Transcription copyright © Pat Newby]

Before the passing of the Reform Bill, in 1832, Norfolk sent twelve representatives to parliament, viz:- two for the county, and two each for the City of Norwich, and the Boroughs of Yarmouth, Lynn, Thetford, and Castle-Rising; but by that great public act, the latter borough was disfranchised, and the county was separated into two divisions, each returning two Knights of the shire to parliament.

The EASTERN DIVISION comprises the eighteen Hundreds marked thus *, in the list, at page 14 [these are: Blofield, Clavering, Depwade, Diss, Earsham, Erpingham North, Erpingham South, Eynesford, Flegg East, Flegg West, Forehoe, Happing, Henstead, Humbleyard, Loddon, Taverham, Tunstead, and Walsham], and its Polling Places are Norwich, Yarmouth, Reepham, North Walsham, Long Stratton, and Loddon. Norwich is the principal place of election.

The WESTERN DIVISION comprises the other fifteen Hundreds of the county [these are: Brothercross, Clackclose, Freebridge-Lynn, Freebridge-Marshland, Gallow, Greenhoe North, Greenhoe South, Grimshoe, Guiltcross, Holt, Launditch, Mitford, Shropham, Smithdon, and Wayland], and its Polling Places are Lynn, East Dereham, Fakenham, Downham, Thetford, and Swaffham; the latter of which is the principal place of election.

At the first election under the Reform Bill, Norfolk sent to parliament seven whigs and five tories; but its present members consist of nine tories and three whigs.

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GENERAL HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE
COUNTY OF NORFOLK

PEERS OF PARLIAMENT,
Who have Seats in the County of Norfolk, or derive their Titles from thence.
(The first five do not reside in the County.)

[Transcription copyright © Pat Newby]

1483 Duke of Norfolk, (see p.26)
1672 Duke of Grafton, Visc. Thetford, &c.
1784 Duke of Gordon & Earl of Norwich

1793 Marquis Hertford, Earl of Yarmouth
1787 Marquis Townshend, of Rainham
1815 Mar. Cholmondeley, Houghton Hall

1696 Earl of Albemarle, Quiddenham Hall
1742 Earl of Orford, Wolterton Hall
1842 Earl of Leicester, Holkham

1640 Baron Stafford, Costessey Hall
1290 Baron Hastings, Melton-Constable
1760 Baron Sondes, Elmham
1720 Baron Berners, Kirby Cane
1780 Baron Walsingham, Merton Hall
1786 Baron Suffield, Gunton House
1796 Baron Calthorpe, Ampton, (Suffolk)
1797 Baron Bayning, Honingham Hall
1797 Baron Wodehouse, Kimberley Hall
1835 Baron Ashburton, Buckenham Tofts
1839 Baron Colborne, West Harling

HONORABLES.
(Sons, &c., of Peers.)

Viscount Bury, son of Earl of Albemarle
Lord W.H. Cholmondeley, son of the Marquis Cholmondeley
Hon. F.G. Howard, Castle Rising
Hon. H.S. Jerningham, son of Lord Stafford
Hon. & Rev. E.S. Keppel, Quiddenham
Hon. & Rev. Thos. R. Keppel, Warham
Hon. G. Keppel, son of Earl Albemarle
Hon. G.W. Milles, Elmham Hall
Hon. W.R. Rous, Worstead House
Lord Charles V.F. Townshend, Rainham Hall
Hon. & Rev. A.A. Turnour, Tatterford
Hon. & Rev. Armine Wodehouse, Barnham-Broom;
     and Hon. & Rev. Alfred, Litcham
Hon. & Rev. W. Wodehouse, Hingham
Hon. Edward Wodehouse, Witton
Hon. Col. Berkeley Wodehouse
Hon. C.S. Cowper, Sandringham
Hon. F., & W.B. Baring, Buckenham Tofts
Hon. H.W. Wilson, Didlington
Hon. & Rev. J.T. Pelham, Bergh Apton
Lord Walpole, son of Earl of Orford
Hon. & Very Rev. George Pellew, Dean of Norwich

Lady Townshend, Yarrow
Dowager Ladies Suffield, Blickling and Horstead Halls
Dowager Ladies Buxton, Shadwell Lodge and Northrepps
Lady Durrant, Norwich
Lady P. Smith, Norwich
Lady Bolton, Burnham Market
Hon. Mrs. Upcher, Sherringham
Hon. Mrs. Chester, Broome Place

BARONETS.

1611 Sir Edmund Bacon, premier, Bart., Raveningham Hall
1620 Sir H. Berney. (See page 790 [which is probably the entry for Kirby Bedon].)
1641 Rev. Sir W.R. Kemp, Gissing
1660 Sir H.R.P. Bedingfield, Oxburgh
1667 Sir R. Martin, Burnham-Westgate
1744 Sir W.B. Proctor, Langley Park
1772 Sir Rd. Sutton, Lynford Hall
1774 Sir W.J.H.B. Ffolkes, Hillington
1783 Sir W.W. Dalling, Earsham House
1783 Sir T.H.E. Durrant, Scottow Hall
1783 Sir Thos. B. Beevor, Hargham Hall
1783 Sir R.P. Jodrell, Sall House
1791 Sir Chas. Chad, Thursford Hall
1800 Sir R.J. Buxton, Shadwell Lodge
1809 Sir James Flower, M.P., Eccles Hall
1818 Sir Thos. T. Hare, Stow Bardolph
1818 Sir Edm. H.K. Lacon, Ormesby
1815 Sir J.H. Preston, Beeston Hall
1818 Sir Edward Hardinge John Stracey, Rackheath Hall
1831 Sir L. Jones, (Cranmore, Somersetshire)
1831 Sir C.M. Clarke, M.D., Little Dunham
1835 Sir J.P. Boileau, Tacolneston
1838 Sir William Foster, Norwich
1840 Sir E.N. Buxton, Northrepps

Knights.

1817 Harvey Sir R.J., Mousehold Heath
1833 Curties Sir Thos. H., Ryburgh

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

GENERAL HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE
COUNTY OF NORFOLK

RAILWAYS, TURNPIKES and ROADS

[Transcription copyright © Pat Newby]

RAILWAYS. - Norfolk has already a Railway from Norwich to Yarmouth; and another is in rapid progress from Norwich to Brandon, to connect the county with the great lines now traversing the kingdom. The former was opened in 1844; and the latter will be completed in 1845. As noticed at pages 81, 292, 308, 400, and 520 [the entries for Norwich, Yarmouth, East Dereham, Thetford, and King's Lynn], various railroads are projected, by which it is proposed to intersect the county in nearly every direction, and to obtain a more direct communication with London, Ipswich, &c., than the Norwich and Brandon line affords. These schemes are now (March 1845) under the consideration of Parliament; - some will, no doubt, be sanctioned, and others postponed or abandoned; indeed, we think several of them could never be made profitable speculations.

The TURNPIKES and other public ROADS in Norfolk, are better than those of most other counties in England, - being generally raised higher than the adjacent lands, well drained by trenches on each side, and having a firm bottom composed of gravel flint, and chalk; which it has already been seen are found within a few feet of the surface in almost every part of the county. Charles II., "who never said a silly thing, nor ever did a wise one," said, when on a visit to the Earl of Yarmouth, at Oxnead, in 1671, "that Norfolk ought to be cut out in strips, to make roads for the rest of the kingdom," - alluding, no doubt, to the surface being generally level. The road from Norwich to Thetford was the first turnpike formed in the county, - being made under acts passed in 1694 and '5. The first toll-gate in England was erected on the turnpike from London to Harwich, in 1679.

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

This page leads to the Hundred descriptions as described in White's in the year 1845. A more general description of the Hundreds is also available showing their approximate locations in the county.

Many counties were split up for administrative purposes into manageable areas of land. This was usually based on a group of parishes and Norfolk was no different. Each of these groups was called a Hundred. Together all these Hundreds, and a few of the main towns (listed below) which had separate administrations, make up the county.

In White's 1845 directory the layout is such that Norwich appears first, followed by Great Yarmouth and then there is a section for each Hundred with the other Boroughs of Thetford and King's Lynn lying in these. The list below uses a more practical approach of Boroughs followed by Hundreds in alphabetical order.

Each Hundred is then described in terms of its topography, agriculture, ecclesiastical area, poor law administration and courts of law. Transport routes which might include main roads, railways (those existing at that time), canals etc. are noted. Its history and any other topics the compilers deemed of interest were also included.

Following each Hundred description every constituent parish/place is listed with information about its church, owners and inhabitants and other points of note. See the places pages for more information including many transcriptions.

The listing following leads directly to the entries. A place to Hundred locater is available. Each of the Hundreds which follows has direct links to its adjacent Norfolk hundreds.

List of Boroughs

• Norwich City and County of the City
• Great Yarmouth
• King's Lynn or Lynn Regis
• Thetford

List of Hundreds

• Blofield
• Brothercross
• Clackclose
• Clavering
• Depwade
• Diss
• Earsham
• Erpingham, North
• Erpingham, South
• Eynesford
• Flegg, East & West
• Forehoe
• Freebridge-Lynn
• Freebridge-Marshland
• Gallow
• Greenhoe, North
• Greenhoe, South
• Grimshoe
• Guiltcross
• Happing
• Henstead
• Holt
• Humbleyard
• Launditch
• Loddon
• Mitford
• Shropham
• Smithdon
• Taverham
• Tunstead
• Walsham
• Wayland

Hundreds in other Counties which contain Norfolk parishes

• Lackford (in Suffolk contains some Thetford parishes)

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Postmasters, etc, from Kelly's 1900 Directory of Norfolk

The city of Norwich, and the towns such as Holt, King's Lynn, Great Yarmouth, Wymondham, etc, had postmasters, who were in charge of the main post offices, the delivery of post, issuing and paying postal orders, telegraphs, etc.

Towns often also had small sub post offices, so that there was one within a short distance of most people. For example, Great Yarmouth had one main post office, in the charge of Lewis S. Lugg, the postmaster, and 14 sub post offices in the charge of sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses.

Those villages which were large enough (about 480 of the more than 700 Norfolk places) also had a post office. It was often part of a village shop or business, such as a draper, and was in the charge of a sub-postmaster or sub-postmistress. This was one occupation in which women were well represented. In the list below, more than 100 sub post offices were held by sub-postmistresses.

In the list, no distinction is made between postmasters and sub-postmasters, though it can probably be assumed that all women were sub-postmistresses. Please see the directory for the exact job title.

A typical entry in Kelly's Directory of Norfolk for 1900 is:

Beighton

Post Office.-- James Hubbard, sub-postmaster. Letters through Norwich, via Acle, arrive at 7.45 a.m.; dispatched, 3.30 p.m. No sunday dispatch. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Acle, 3 miles distant.

Today, there are still main post offices in towns, and sub post offices in villages, but usually only when a village shop has survived. Many village shops have closed because they cannot compete with supermarkets, and closure has also meant the end of the village post office.

Copyright © Pat Newby
April 1999.

Postmasters and Postmistresses from Kelly's 1900 Directory of Norfolk

This list was extracted by (and is copyright ©) Richard Johns
1998.

 Receiver
 
 Alcock     David             Wendling
 
 Postmasters, sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses
 
 Abbey      William           Guist
 Abram      Alfred            Thornage
 Abram      Frederick Wm.     Little Walsingham
 Aldis      Charles Walter    South Creake
 Aldous     Henry             Honingham
 Alexander  Edward            South Walsham
 Allen      George            Rockland All Saints
 Allen      Robert            Stanhoe
 Allen      Mrs. Sarah        Shropham
 Allington  William           Old Buckenham
 Amis       Henry William     Salhouse
 Andrews    Thomas James      Swainsthorpe
 Anscombe   Frederick Thomas  Wicklewood
 Appleton   John              Postwick
 Argyle     John William      Yarmouth (Blackfriars Road)
 Argyle     Ernest L.         Yarmouth (Nelson Road)
 Arthurton  John              Holme Hale
 Back       James Edward      Hindringham
 Bailey     Frederic William  Barton Turf
 Baker      George            Rushford
 Baker      Robert            Tottenhill
 Baker      Miss Dorothy A.   Blakeney
 Bales      Mrs. Jemima       Great Bircham
 Bane       James             Hales
 Barber     Frederick         Ellingham
 Barber     James             Ringland
 Barber     Mrs. Eleanor      Lamas
 Barber     Mrs. Emma         Starston
 Barcham    Mrs. Eliza        Sheringham (Lower)
 Barham     George Harry      Trowse
 Barnard    Mrs. Maria        East Harling
 Barnes     Johm              Clenchwarton
 Barrett    George            North Runcton
 Barrow     Edward E.         West Dereham
 Bastard    Benjamin          Erpingham
 Bean       Mrs. Mary         Marlingford
 Becket     George            Overstrand
 Beckett    Miss Alice Maude  Dersingham
 Bee        James             Haddiscoe
 Beeston    Philip            Mileham
 Beeston    Mrs. Hannah       Rockland St. Mary
 Bell       Thomas            Stow Bardolph (Stow)
 Bennett    George Thomas     Tilney St. Lawrence
 Bidewell   Frederick         Wood Norton
 Billman    William           Foulden
 Bird       Alfred            Scottow
 Blackburn  Willie John       Brancaster Staithe
 Blaxter    Mrs. Mary Ann     Hillington
 Blower     Michael           Gimingham
 Blyth      Samuel Spatchet   Caister
 Blythe     Alfred            Easton
 Boast      Elijah William    Langham
 Boswell    Henry             Neatishead
 Bowery     Miss Minna        Taverham
 Bowman     John Russell      Colney
 Boyce      William Edward    Mundford
 Bradshaw   Thomas            North Walsham
 Breeze     Robert            Crownthorpe
 Bristow    George            Yarmouth (King Street)
 Brock      Charles John      Freethorpe
 Brooke     Ellen Maria       Harleston
 Brooks     Burwood           Gissing
 Brooks     Henry             Hanworth
 Brown      John              Yarmouth (Regent Road)
 Brown      Mrs. Harriet      Wood Rising
 Browne     Philip William    Reedham
 Brunson    Alfred John       Runham
 Buck       George            Thorpe Market
 Buck       Benjamin          Trunch
 Bugdale    James             Little Snoring
 Bullock    Mrs. Ann          Winterton
 Burrage    Henry             Sprowston
 Burrows    Eldred            Burston
 Bushell    Frederick         Yarmouth (Beccles Road)
 Buxton     Elijah            Billingford (near Dereham)
 Buxton     Samuel            Needham
 Cable      Mrs. Isabella
              Royston         Burnham Market
 Calver     Henry Frederick   Yarmouth (St. Peter's Road)
 Cammack    Frederick         Terrington St. John (Middle Drove)
 Carr       Augustus          Methwold
 Carse      James Richard     Walsoken (Old)
 Carter     Edward David      Snetterton
 Cattermoul Mrs. Emily        Stalham
 Catton     Mrs. Sarah        Bawdeswell
 Cawthorn   William Walter    Upwell (Three Holes Bridge)
 Chamberlin John George       Wroxham
 Chaplin    Miss Anna         Framingham Earl
 Chaplin    Mrs. Phoebe       West Bradenham
 Chaplin    John, jun.        Ludham
 Chapman    William           Bintry
 Chapman    Thomas            Fundenhall
 Chapman    Oliver Charles    Litcham
 Chapman    Arthur Suttle     Tittleshall
 Chapman    John              Upwell (Nordelph)
 Chapman    John R.           Yarmouth (Crown Road)
 Chestney   Walter            Aldborough
 Child      David William     Bawburgh
 Churchman  Mrs. Elizabeth    Wood Dalling
 Churchyard Henry William     Pulham St. Mary Magdalen
 Clare      Samuel Critoph    Holt
 Claxton    John James        Swanton Novers
 Clements   Mrs. Sarah        Lessingham
 Coan       James             Morton
 Cobbin     Miss Louisa       Gooderstone
 Cockrill   William Ballard   Yarmouth (Town)
 Cole       Charles           Ridlington
 Cole       Charles           Witton (near North Walsham)
 Collins    Adam W.           Moulton St. Mary
 Colman     Frederick         Southrepps
 Cook       Henry             West Newton
 Cook       Frederick         Great Snoring
 Cooke      William           Bramerton
 Cooper     Richard Parker    Sparham
 Cooper     Abraham S.        Yarmouth (Market Place)
 Cooper     Mrs. Lydia        Outwell
 Copping    James Benjamin    Worstead
 Corston    Jonathan          Bunwell
 Coulson    Albert            Hilgay
 Cox        Thomas            South Lopham
 Cracknell  Mrs. Alice        Stiffkey
 Crane      Robert Jeremiah   Banningham
 Crane      Thomas            Marsham
 Cuddon     Mrs. Elizabeth    Reveningham (sic)
 Curson     George Webster    West Walton (Church End)
 Curston    James             South Pickenham
 Cutter     John              Bridgham
 Dalton     Samuel            Welney
 Dane       Samuel            Shouldham Thorpe
 Davey      Edward            Tivetshall St. Margaret
 Deadman    Thomas Livermore  Weasenham St. Peter
 Debenham   Harry A.          Thorpe Abbott
 Delamore   Mrs. Elizabeth    Walpole St. Andrew
 Dexter     Frederick         Stow Bedon (Lower)
 Dodman     Robert Thomas     Barney
 Doe        Charles           Larling
 Doughty    Walter            Suffield
 Douse      James William     Shipdham
 Downing    Mrs. Matilda      Riddlesworth
 Drew       George            Caistor St. Edmund
 Ducker     David Frederick   Happisburgh
 Dunn       Charles           Necton
 Dunnett    Ernest J.         Ashill
 Eagle      William           North Pickenham
 Edwards    Robert            Dereham (Toftwood)
 Elliott    John              Dickleburgh
 Ellis      Thomas William    Loddon
 Ellis      John              Terrington St. Clement
 Emerson    John              Fulmodeston
 Emerson    John              Croxton
 English    William           Boughton
 English    Benjamin          Filby
 Everson    Thomas            Stratton Strawless
 Ewer       Henry             Snettisham
 Fairbairn  Robert            Oulton
 Falgate    Thomas            Forncett St. Mary
 Farman     Charles William   Burlingham St. Andrew
 Farrow     James             Yaxham
 Faulkner   John George       Narborough
 Feather    Alfred            Sea Palling
 Fennings   Edward John       Hempton
 Fickling   Miss Martha       Saham Toney
 Fillenham  Walt. Edmund      Gaywood
 Finch      Matthew           Garveston
 Flatman    Charles John      Booton
 Flowerdew  William           Walcott
 Flowers    Baker             Kirby Cane
 Forster    Samuel Joseph     Cawston
 Fox        David             Forncett St. Peter
 Fox        Thomas            Horsham St. Faith's
 Fox        Miss Maria        Binham
 Fox        Mrs. Harriet      Cromer
 Funnell    Robert            Bracon Ash
 Futter     William           Tuttington
 Galloway   Thomas            Oxburgh
 Gardner    William Amos      Billingford (near Diss)
 Garrett    Charles           Frettenham
 Garwood    Miss Lucy Ann     Houghton
 Gaul       James             Ingworth
 Gaze       John              Halvergate
 Gibbs      Samuel Arthur     Rollesby
 Gibson     Thomas            Kenninghall
 Godfrey    Arthur William    Seething
 Goldsmith  Charles           Great Fransham
 Goodman    George            Little Dunham
 Goodwin    Miss Charlotte    Plumstead
 Goose      Mrs. Margaret     Horsey (Waxham)
 Gotts      Mrs. Robert(sic)  Aylmerton
 Gotts      Mrs. Ann          Honing
 Grand      George            Colton
 Gray       Miss Emma         Paston
 Green      Reuben            Woodbastwick
 Green      Mrs. Frances      Hunworth
 Green      Mrs. Emma N.      West Lexham
 Greene     Miss Annie        Castle Rising
 Groom      Ernest J. H.      Beetley
 Groom      Mrs. Sarah Ann    Holkham
 Grunow     Mrs. Isabel       Flitcham
 Gunn       Christopher       Wimbotsham
 Haggith    Robert            Bacton
 Haggith    Arthur Jabez      Mundesley
 Hall       James             Drayton
 Hall       Herbert Arthur    Fersfield
 Hall       James             Middleton
 Halls      Arthur            Yarmouth (Cobholm Island)
 Hammaway   John              Downham (Railway Road)
 Hamnell    Paul              Swardeston
 Hanley     Zachariah         West Walton (Highway)
 Harbour    Albert            Flordon
 Harrington George            Stokesby
 Harrison   William Lancelot  King's Lynn
 Harrison   William, jun.     Strumpshaw
 Harrowven  Henry             Catton
 Harvey     James             Hethersett
 Harvey     George E.         Witchingham
 Harvey     Mrs. Eliza        Tivetshall St. Mary
 Hazell     March             Hempnall
 Hazell     Tryphena          Walsoken (Town)
 Hazlewood  Simeon            Quidenham
 Henden     Mrs. William      Sidestrand
 Herring    Robert            Tottington
 Hewitt     Mrs. Elizabeth    Swafield
 Hipper     Robert Wm. Henry  Edgefield
 Hipperson  Arthur            Shouldham
 Holliday   William           Scarning
 Holman     Charles Fen       Dereham (Norwich Road)
 Hooper     Harbord           Martham
 Horn       James             Barton Bendish
 Horn       James             Denver
 Horne      James Joseph      Longham
 Horne      William Pratt     Stoke Holy Cross
 Howard     Edward            Swanton Abbot
 Howard     Harry             Thetford
 Howes      George            Brisley
 Howlett    Mrs. Mary         Stow Bardolph (Stow Bridge)
 Hubbard    James             Beighton
 Hubbard    James             Rushford (Shadwell)
 Hudson     Edward            Cley
 Huggins    Robert            Hockering
 Inman      James Henry       Upwell
 Jacobs     Samuel            Brancaster
 Jacobs     George Harry      Sedgeford
 James      Frederick Wyatt   Yarmouth (Northgate Street)
 James      Mrs. Susan        Congham
 Jarrard    John              Stradsett
 Jones      Samuel            Lingwood
 Juby       Mrs. Sarah Ann    Hedenham
 Kemp       Mrs. Sarah        Heacham
 Kemp       Mrs. A.           Hempstead
 Kent       Joseph            Gillingham
 Kerrison   Robert            Elmham
 Kersey     John              Wrenningham
 Kingaby    Robert            Hingham
 Kirby      George            Tasburgh
 Laight     William           Acle
 Lawrence   Frederick Barret  Garboldisham
 Laws       John              Costessey
 Laws       Miss Martha       Fincham
 Leeder     Charles           Field Dalling
 Leverett   Edward            Thurton
 Lewis      Miss Ruth         Salthouse
 Lincoln    Mrs. Ellen        Moulton St. Michael
 Linden     Arthur            Briningham
 Linder     John              Melton Constable
 Lines      Philip            Dereham (Baxter Row)
 Lock       Stephen, jun.     Downham
 Long       Herbert W.        Bale
 Long       John              Lyng
 Love       Henry             Elsing
 Lovett     Mrs. Eliza        Little Fransham
 Lowe       Thomas R.         Dereham
 Lown       Miss Mary         Sheringham (Upper)
 Lugg       Lewis S.          Yarmouth
 Lyndo      Stephen           Repps-with-Bastwick
 Lyndoe     Harrison          Wereham
 Mace       George M.         North Walsham (White Horse)
 Macrow     Miss Emma         Diss (Victoria Road)
 Madgett    Frederick         Roydon (near Diss)
 Maidstone  Leonard           Great Plumstead
 Mallett    Mrs. Sarah        Ranworth
 Mann       William Henry     Sandringham
 Marsh      Henry             East Winch
 Marsters   Matthew           South Wootton
 Mason      Mrs. Maria        Crimplesham
 Mason      Mrs. Jessie       South Raynham
 Matthews   Arthur            Great Cressingham
 McCreedy   Harcourt          Aylsham
 Meale      Luther George     Foxley
 Mee        John              Stoke Ferry
 Merrison   Benjamin Winter   Brundall
 Middleton  Frederick Wm.     Mulbarton
 Minns      Charles Robert    Tilney All Saints
 Mitchell   George            Swanton Morley
 Morris     Mrs. Sarah Ann    Burgh St. Peter
 Moy        John              Roughton
 Muffett    William           East Bilney
 Munford    Robert            Swannington
 Murrell    John              Caston
 Murrell    Mrs. Clara        Carbrooke
 Muskett    William           Newton Flotman
 Muttitt    Alfred William    Aldeby
 Narborough William Matthew   Wiggenhall St. Mary Magdalen
 Neave      James             East Tuddenham
 Nelson     William           Besthorpe
 Newing     Ernest Newman     East Rudham
 Newstead   James             Rackheath
 Nicholds   Mrs. Elizabeth    Castle Acre
 Nicholson  George Harrison   Yarmouth (Southtown)
 Noble      Mrs. Emily        Bressingham
 Norgate    Walter            Stibbard
 Norman     Arthur            Sutton
 Nunn       Mrs. Elizabeth    Thompson
 Osborne    George            Pentney
 Osborne    Richard Noah      Surlingham
 Ottaway    Robert James      Saxthorpe
 Overton    Walter            Docking
 Page       William           Attleborough
 Palmer     Arthur John       Feltwell
 Palmer     Alfred            Pulham St. Mary the Virgin
 Palmer     Albert Henry      Wortwell
 Parfect    Mrs. Mary Elizbth Morley St. Peter
 Parfect    Mrs.              Wymondham (Suton)
 Parker     Walter James      Thorpe St. Andrew
 Parlett    Robert            Marham
 Parnell    Nathaniel         West Lynn
 Patrick    William           Gayton
 Pawson     Joseph B.         Denton
 Payne      Robert Gamble     Bodham
 Payne      William           West Runton
 Peake      Mrs. Phoebe       Rushall
 Pearce     William Funnell   Diss
 Pease      John              Barnham Broom
 Pegg       Orris Robert      Hindolveston
 Pengelley  Thomas Ernest     Fakenham
 Pestell    Mrs. Harriet      Edingthorpe
 Pettitt    John              Hockwold
 Phoenix    Walter Charles    Deopham
 Pollard    Samuel            Potter Heigham
 Pooley     William Cook      Topcroft
 Porter     Barley Page       Southery
 Potter     Henry             Holme-next-the-Sea
 Preston    Mrs. Eliza        Beeston
 Puxley     William           Runton
 Pyke       William           Gresham
 Racey      William           Emneth
 Randell    James             Trimingham
 Raven      James T.          Foulsham
 Rayner     William           Brinton
 Rayner     Mrs. Lydia        Hardwick
 Reeve      James             Terrington St. John
 Reeve      George            Walpole St. Peter
 Reeve      William           Winfarthing
 Regester   William           Great Dunham
 Richardson Miss Martha Ann   Great Ryburgh
 Riches     James Vincent     Burnham Overy Staithe
 Riches     Arthur            Hardingham
 Riches     George Benjamin   Watlington
 Richmond   James R.          Weston Longville
 Rivitt     Edward            Southburgh
 Rix        Henry             Beechamwell
 Rix        Henry George      Eccles
 Roberts    William Philip    Hainford
 Robinson   Walter Beart      Brockdish
 Rolfe      George            North Walsham (Spa Common)
 Roll       Mrs. Ann          Thurne
 Rope       Mrs. Lucy Morriss Horning
 Roy        Alfred Edward     Coltishall
 Roy        Herbert G.        Helhoughton
 Royall     John Richard      Woodton
 Rudd       Miss Lydia A.     Reepham
 Ruddock    Simon Peter       North Lopham
 Sales      Thomas            Cantley
 Salmon     Joseh B.          Yarmouth (South Gorleston)
 Samson     Mrs. Mary Ann     Wiggenhall St. German
 Saunders   Alfred Charles    Banham
 Saunders   William           Burgh (Aylsham) 
 Saward     Mrs. S. E.        Wolferton
 Scutts     Charles           Scole
 Seaman     George Henry      Mattishall
 Sewter     William           Sculthorpe
 Sexton     Mrs. Joseph       Knapton
 Sharman    Robert Tripp      Toft Monks
 Shephard   Mrs. Rebecca      East Barsham
 Sheringham Mrs. Rosamond
              Anna            Letheringsett
 Shinkfield James             West Winch
 Sidell     Mrs. Mary         Westwick
 Simmons    Thomas            Saxlingham Nethergate
 Simmons    Elijah            West Somerton
 Smith      James Richard     Croxton
 Smith      William           Morley St. Botolph
 Smithson   Horace            Ketteringham
 Softley    John              West Acre
 Softley    Frederick         Thuxton
 Southgate  Samuel            Hunstanton (Railway)
 Southgate  Miss Jane         Wells
 Sparrow    Mrs. Ann          Colkirk
 Spink      Geo. David John   Weybourne
 Spink      Mrs. Harriet Lucy Felmingham
 Stacey     Jonathon          Haveringland
 Starr      Frederick         Long Stratton
 Stearman   Walter Marler     Smallburgh
 Stedman    Allen Bertie      Thursford
 Steel      James             Harpley
 Steel      George            Weeting
 Stimpson   William           Witton (near Norwich)
 Stone      George            Keswick
 Stott      Mrs. Mary Ann     West Raynham
 Stoveld    William           Watton
 Stubbings  Mrs. Julia        Barford
 Sturgeon   George Charles    Norwich (Castle Meadow)
 Sutherland Thomas Edward     Thornham
 Sword      Samuel            Little Melton
 Sycamore   Thomas Reuben     Geldeston
 Tann       Ephraim           Tacolneston
 Taylor     Miss Elizabeth    Alburgh
 Taylor     Mrs. Elizabeth    Guestwick
 Thing      James Neale       Whissonsett
 Thomas     Richard Edwin     Rougham
 Thompson   Robert            Felthorpe
 Thompson   Thomas            Wighton
 Thompson   Miss Jane         Itteringham
 Thrower    Alfred Bernard    Heydon
 Tillott    Misses Emma
              and Anne        East Wretham
 Titlow     Henry James       Swaffham
 Tooke      Robert            Burgh St. Margaret
 Townshend  William           Ingoldisthorpe
 Tricker    Frederick Wm.     Carleton Rode
 Trudgill   Edward            Aslacton
 Tuck       Miss Susannah     Walsingham (Great)
 Turner     James             Hickling
 Tye        Mrs. Sarah        Gressenhall
 Tyrrell    Henry Robert      Scoulton
 Upton      Frank             Northwold
 Wade       Mrs. Margaret     Hevingham
 Wales      Arthur            Ringstead
 Walker     George            Little Ellingham
 Walker     John              Hilborough
 Walker     Miss Sarah Burton North Creake
 Walker     Mrs. Sarah Ann    Tattersett
 Ward       Edward John       Hoveton St. John
 Warren     John Joseph       Hockham
 Watkins    Mrs. Elizabeth    Wormegay
 Watts      George            Brampton
 Webb       Frederic Merton   Baconsthorpe
 Webster    James             Stow Bedon
 Weddup     William           Burgh Apton (sic)
 Wegg       Miss Mary Ann     Cockley Cley
 Wells      Thomas            Ingham
 Wells      Henry             Northrepps
 West       Miss Maria        Tibenham
 West       Mrs. Elizabeth    Great Massingham
 Wharton    George            Wymondham (Spooner Row)
 Whitaker   William           Warham All Saints
 Whitehand  James             Ashwellthorpe
 Whiting    John W. G.        Yarmouth (North Denes)
 Whybrow    Mrs. Sarah        Stow Bardolph (Barroway Drove)
 Wicks      George Robert     Shotesham All Saints
 Wightman   Hugh W.           Catfield
 Wiles      George Frederick  Terrington St. John (Fen End)
 Wilkins    William           Great Ellingham
 Williams   John Llewellyn    New Buckenham
 Willimont  Walter Henry      Syderstone
 Wilmot     Hilton            Wymondham (Market Place)
 Woodcock   Thomas            Briston
 Woods      Walter            Buxton
 Woods      Arthur            Ditchingham
 Woods      Mrs. Emily        Hunstanton (Town)
 Woolston   Mrs. Emily        Hemsby
 Worrell    William           Grimston
 Wright     John              Blofield
 Wright     Isaac             Earsham
 Wright     Charles           Sporle
 Yallop     Richard Fryer     Brooke
 Yallop     Frederick Wm.     Norton Subcourse
 Yallop     Arthur            Ormesby
 Youels     George            Shelfanger
 Young      Mrs. Margaret     Titchwell
 Youngman   Charles Fred      Blofield Corner
 Youngman   Miss Anna
              Elizabeth       East Ruston
 Youngs     Enoch             Upton (with Fishley)
 

Station Masters, etc, from Kelly's 1900 Directory of Norfolk

For each place which had a railway station, the directory shows the person in charge, who was usually the station master, but could also be a master, collector or porter.

The directory sometimes shows the nearest railway station to a village, and therefore repeats the name of the station master. An example is the three entries for James Atkins (the same person) who was the station master for Gunton, but Gunton station was more than 2 miles east of the village, in the parish of Thorpe Market, and was only a mile from Southrepps, so he was shown under all three places in the directory. Another example is Zacchaeus Goodale who is shown twice because Clenchwarton station was in the parish of Tilney All Saints.

Please check the directory itself for exact details.

The abbreviations are:

• GE -- Great Eastern Railway
• MGN -- Midland and Great Northern Railway

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April 1999.

Station Masters from Kelly's 1900 Directory of Norfolk

 Master
 
 Moy          Charles           Heydon (Bluestone)
 
 Collectors
 
 Cross        Frederick         Denver Junction
 English      Richard           Stoke Ferry
 Griggs       William Fred      Downham GE
 Turner       Arthur            West Dereham (Abbey)
 Waters       Chas              Fordham (Ryston)
 Watter       Charles           Hilgay (Ryston)
 
 Porter-in-Charge
 
 Utting       Robert A.         Pulham St Mary Magdalen
 
 Station Masters
 
 Aldis        Arthur            Holme Hale
 Allen        Alfred            Acle
 Atkins       James             Gunton             (See introductory
 Atkins       James             Southrepps          text above)
 Atkins       James             Thorpe Market
 Avery        Frederick William Worstead
 Bamford      Robert Charles    Whitwell MGN
 Barker       William George    Thuxton
 Barratt      William           Hunstanton
 Barton       Chas Walter       East Harling
 Bastow       Seth              Cromer Beach MGN
 Bell         Brian             Yarmouth Southtown
 Belton       William           Lingwood
 Benns        Francis           Cromer GE
 Bill         William Frederick Little Massingham
 Bird         William           Trowse Millgate GE
 Birkett      John Bescoby      Tivetshall
 Bishop       James             Ellingham
 Blackbown    John              Drayton MGN
 Bloxham      Alfred            Yarmouth MGN
 Borrett      Arthur            Martham
 Borrett      Frederick Jas     Pulham St Mary the Virgin
 Bowthorpe    George            Walsoken GE
 Bull         Samuel            Stalham MGN
 Butters      Thomas            Middleton
 Butters      Joseph            Wells
 Cann         William           Watton
 Carter       John              Thetford (Bridge)
 Chissell     George Sadler     Whitlingham
 Clark        Harry Jarrett     Spooner Row
 Clarke       Samuel            Ashwellthorpe
 Coker        John              Harleston
 Copland      Walter William    Melton Constable
 Cross        Frederick         Terrington St Clement
 Cullington   Henry             Felmingham MGN
 Dodman       George            Aylsham GE
 Drake        Alfred Thomas     Reedham
 Drewell      George William    Great Ryburgh
 Eastaugh     Charles Samuel    Dereham
 Easton       Francis Arthur    Fakenham GE
 Everson      Robert Scott      North Elmham
 Finch        Arthur William    Alburgh/Homersfield
 Fisk         William           Docking
 Fisk         Frederic William  Holkham
 Flaxman      Richard           Catfield MGN
 Flude        George Nathaniel  Burston
 Foulger      Francis Cornelius Earsham
 Francis      John              Potter Heigham
 Gawthrop     George            Emneth
 Gillingwater Robert            Diss
 Gladwin      Andrew Jesse      Hilgay
 Goddard      John              Stow Bardolph
 Goodale      Zacchaeus         Clenchwarton       (See introductory
 Goodale      Zacchaeus         Tilney All Saints   text above)
 Goodrum      Robert            Herringfleet (Exchange)
 Green        Herbert Edward    Stanhoe
 Gunton       Walter Philip     Swainsthorpe
 Hales        William           Ketteringham
 Harris       George            Cawston GE
 Havis        William Henry     East Rudham
 Havis        William H.        Witchingham
 Hoare        James             Buxton Lamas
 Hoggar       Robert            Flordon
 Hopkins      Francis           West Walton GE
 Howard       Horace            Terrington St John
 Ives         Arthur James      Hemsby
 Jackson      George Roger      Attleborough
 Jackson      Henry             Cantley
 Jackson      Edward William    East Winch
 Jeffcoat     Thomas            Hillington
 Jessup       George            Norwich Thorpe GE
 King         Robert William    Grimston
 King         Robert William    Roydon (near King's Lynn)
 Long         Horace            Hellesdon
 Matson       William Smith     Walsingham
 Meal         Joseph            Caister
 Metcalfe     William Henry     North Walsham MGN
 Mill         William Frederick Brundall
 Mills        Thomas Read       Helhoughton
 Moy          Charles           Cawston MGN
 Murrell      Thomas H.         Mundesley GE & MGN
 Nash         Trevett Read      Reepham GE
 Neeves       Charles           Aylsham Town MGN
 Nibloe       John James        Thetford GE
 Norman       David             Wymondham
 Notley       Charles Edward    Salhouse
 Oliver       Frederick         Ormesby
 Overy        Walter Henry      Wretham & Hockham
 Page         Alfred            Little Dunham
 Paige        Frederick Albert  Dersingham
 Paige        Edward George     Watlington
 Paul         John              Roudham Junction
 Pitchers     George            Honing MGN
 Platten      Frederick Henry   Corpusty
 Pycraft      Harry             Hindolveston
 Raney        James             Kimberley
 Read         Richard J.        Coltishall
 Rice         Frank             Sheringham MGN
 Rice         Samuel Jackson    Stow Bedon
 Richardson   Frank A.          Attlebridge
 Robbins      Alfred Reuben     Walpole St Andrew
 Rowe         James Welham      Snettisham
 Rowe         James             North Walsham GE
 Rump         Arthur            Sedgeford
 Sadd         Alfred            Bawsey (Gayton Rd)
 Sainty       Austin
                Christopher     Swaffham GE
 Saward       Henry Leonard     Wolferton
 Saye         Henry James       West Walton Ferry
 Sayer        Arthur H.         Paston GE & MGN
 Sayers       Arthur H.         Knapton GE & MGN
 Smith        William Thomas    Burnham Market GE
 Smith        William Edward    Fakenham MGN
 Smith        Charles Howard    Hardingham
 Smith        Francis           King's Lynn MGN
 Soloman      George Frederick  Weeting
 Souter       Robert            Geldeston
 Stannard     Alfred A. E.      Buckenham
 Stevenson    James             Ditchingham
 Stokes       Harry             Yaxham
 Stone        William John      Foulsham
 Stone        Jas               Haddiscoe (Lowestoft Branch)
 Stone        Benjamin          Runton
 Thomas       William           Great Fransham
 Underhill    Francis Gowland   Wroxham
 Utting       F. G.             Thursford
 Walby        Charles           Wendling
 Walpole      John              North Elmham (County School)
 Webb         Wm Francis Ransom North Wootton
 Weston       B.                Norwich Victoria
 Whistle      William Walter    Holt MGN
 Whitby       Walter            Guestwick
 Wilby        Charles           Narborough
 Wilby        Charles           Pentney
 Wilson       Frederick         King's Lynn GE
 Wootton      Alfred            Norwich (City) MGN
 Wright       George Valentine  Aldeby
 Wright       William Nelson    Heacham
 Youell       Harry Thomas      Hethersett
 Youngman     Harry Augustus    Eccles
 

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UK and Ireland: Directories

Directories were published for many large towns from about 1800, aimed at commercial travellers, though some earlier ones exist. A few decades later such publications were produced covering small towns and rural areas. These directories generally provided a brief description of each town or place covered, plus a listing of prominent residents and of the various tradesmen, and in due course were published annually. As the 19th century progressed directories became more and more comprehensive, and can be of considerable help in locating people and tracing their movements. A growing number of these directories are now being made available online or on CD-ROM.

Useful reference books:

Shaw, Gareth and Tipper, Alison. British Directories: A bibliography and guide to directories published in England and Wales (1850-1950) and Scotland (1753-1950)., (1988).

Norton, J. Guide to the National and Provincial Directories of England and Wales, excluding London, published before 1856, Royal Historical Society (1950).

Links:

• Leicester University's Digital Library of Historical Directories - The aim of this project was to make available one directory for each English and Welsh county for the 1850s, 1890s and 1910s. In addition, a sample of directories was made available for the period 1750-1849, and for the 1860s, 1870s, 1880s and 1900s.
• GENFair - listing of trade directories for many counties (CD or Downloadable).
• Protestation Returns are held in the House of Lords Library - "The Protestation Returns are the closest record we have to a census from 1642. If you can trace your ancestors back to 1642, and you know which county and parish they lived in, it may be worth looking to see if their names are in the Protestation Returns."
• The Yellow Pages Archive - the Berkshire Record Office hold the national archive of Yellow Pages telephone directories. 
• British Telecom Archives have a number of record collections of value to genealogists. Of particular value is their extensive collection of Telephone Directories, dating from 1880 to the present day, which are available on microfilm in their public searchroom.
• Residential Number Search allows searches for residential, commercial and freefone telephone numbers.
• Commercial "people finder" services are offered by ukphonebook.com and 192.com.
• Ancestry's (subscription) Schools, Directories & Church Histories people search facility.
• U.K., City and County Directories, 1600s-1900s - Ancestry
• Directories - The Genealogist