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