1836 White's                        

DEOPHAM, or Deepham parish, 2½ miles S. E. of Hingham includes the small village of Deopham Green, many scattered houses, 506 inhabitants, and 1668 acres of land, belonging a number of proprietors, and lying in two manors, of which Lord Wodehouse and the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury are lords; the latter being appropriators of the rectorial tithes, and patrons of the vicarage, value in K.B. at £5. 7s. 11d., and augmented from 1716 to '18, with £70 given by them; £130, given by the Rev. Henry Rix; and  £200 of Queen Anne's bounty; all laid out in land at Shipdham. The Rev. Rd. Adams is incumbent. The Misses Ames, of Bath, are lessees of the corn tithes. The Church (St. Andrew) is a large edifice, with a square tower and five bells, and formerly had four guilds. It is nearly half a mile S. W. of the village; and both are on rising ground though some parts of the parish are low and wet. A famous lime tree, cut down here about 1705, measured round its trunk from 8½ to 16 yards, and its height was upwards of 30 yards. In 1726, the Rev. Henry Rix bequeathed, for teaching four children, bread for the poor, and 11s. for a sermon yearly, the sum of £60, laid out in 4A. of land, now let for £7. The Primitive Methodists have two small chapels in the parish. The common was enclosed in 1812.

Directory:-  (Marked * are land owners )

Edw. Badcock*,   vict. Half Moon

Williain Clements,   wheelwright

Rueben Haythorpe,   schoolmaster

Robt. Howe,   miller

Wm. Knights,   beerhouse

Edw. Labell,   blacksmith

Taylor Phœnix*,   thatcher

James Richardson,   baker

Farmers

Wm. Barker

Fras. Barnard

Rowing Brasnett* (and baker)

Richd. Breeze

Robt, Clark

John Curson

Isaac Eason*

Wm. Liddlelow

Thomas Matthews

Archibald Rowing

Garrett Odden Taylor