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1836 White’s Directory
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 Ames1, 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.
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(persons marked * are land owners)
- Edw. Badcock*, vict. Half Moon
- William Clements, wheelwright
- Reuben 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
Footnotes
- Ames is also spelt Amyas. ↩︎
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