1872 Directory

1872 Harrod’s                         

DEOPHAM is a parish and village in Forehoe hundred and union, diocese of Norwich, archdeaconry of Norfolk, rural deanery of Hingham, and Wymondham county court district, East Norfolk, 2½ miles S.E. of Hingham, 4 N. of Attleborough station, and 4 W. from Wymondham.
The church, St. Andrew, is a fine building, in the perpendicular style, with a square embattled tower, having octagonal turrets and two buttresses at each angle, with ornamental pinnacles on each side, and contains five bells.
The Earl of Kimberley and the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury are lords of the manor. The living is a vicarage, value about £190 per annum. The incumbent is the Rev. Hibbert Wanklyn. There are also about £23, arising from fourteen acres of land, distributed among the poor in coals and bread annually.
The population in 1871 was 480. The parish contains 1,626 acres. of land.
The Primitive Methodists have two small chapels.
Here is a National School.

 POSTAL REGULATIONS. – William Whitehand, postmaster. Letters through Wymondham arrive at 8.30 a.m., and dispatched at 5.55 p.m. The nearest money-order and telegraph office is at Hingham.

• Wanklyn Rev. Hibbert,    vicar. Vicarage

• Clements Jas.,    Wheelwright, The Green
• Gathergood William,    beer retailer
• George Jeremiah,    shopkeeper
• Goddard   —–,    miller
• Larkson Miss,    National schoolmistress  (Clarkson?)
• Mason Robert,    tailor
• Page William,   shopkeeper, Low Common
• Phœnix Robert,   shopkeeper, The Green
• Stone George,    drill owner, thatcher, and Poor-law Guardian
• Whitehand William,   shopkeeper
• Wingfield John,    Half Moon inn, and blacksmith, The Green

Farmers:

• Barker John
• Brunton John
• Clarke Thomas, Stallands
• Clarke William, jun.
• Dixon Robert
• Eason Robert, jun., Low Common
• Huggins George, and cattle dealer
• Jude Charles, and drill owner, Hingham road
• Leverett James
• Liddelow William, The Green
• Millard George, Church farm
• Minns Reuben
• Patrick William
• Phœnix Robert, The Green
• Pitts Philip
• Riches John, South hill
• Roberson John, The Hall
• Rowing Miss M., The Green
• Shaw William, Hingham road
• Shickle James, High Elm
• Shickle William, sen., The Green
• Shickle William, jun., The Green
• Spruce William, Stallands
• Stone Phœnix Taylor
• Wade Robert
• Walker William, High Elm
• Ward John, Low Common
• Watling Henry
• Webster James
• Whitehand Charles
• Whitehand John, and drill owner, Stallands