1888 Kelly’s
DEOPHAM is a parish, 3 miles from Kimberley station, 4 north from Attleborough station, and 4 south-west from Wymondham, comprising the small village of DEOPHAM GREEN, situated a mile south-west from the church. The parish is in the Mid division of the county, Forehoe hundred, petty sessional division and union, Wymondham county court district, rural deanery of Hingham Forehoe division, archdeaconry of Norfolk and diocese of Norwich.
The church of St. Andrew is a building of flint and stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, lofty nave, aisles, north porch and an embattled western tower, with octagonal turrets and ornamental pinnacles, and containing 5 bells: in 1864 the chancel was entirely restored and new roofed, and in 1867 the south aisle was restored, at a cost of £240: the nave and south door were thoroughly restored and new windows inserted, at a cost of £2,000, and was again opened for service in July, 1884, after being closed for two years: the tower and porch will be restored as soon as sufficient funds are forthcoming: the total estimated cost, including £500 for the tower, is £3,200: there are 280 sittings. The register dates from the year 1560. The living is a vicarage, tithe rent charge £179, net yearly value £113, with residence, and including 23 acres of glebe land in Shipdham and 6 acres in this parish, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, and held since 1861 by the Rev. Hibbert Wanklyn, L.Th. of University College, Durham. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are impropriators of the rectoriaI tithes.
There are two Primitive Methodists chapels, one at Deopham Green, erected in 1837, the other at Low Common.
The Rev. Henry Rix, who died in 1728, left £60, to be invested in land, which produces a rental of £9 yearly, now appropriated for teaching four poor children, and for an annual sermon, the minister to receiving 10s., the clerk 1s., and 8s. to each child, the remainder to be given in bread to the poor. About £12, arising from 14 acres of land, awarded at the enclosure in 1814 in lieu of common rights, is distributed among the poor annually. The Earl of Kimberley, the Sutton family and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, are lords of the manor. The principal landowners are the Earl of Kimberley K. G., the trustees of the late J. B. Graver Browne, esq. and the Crown. The soil is marl; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, turnips and hay. The area is 1,646 acres; rateable value, £2,866; the population in 1881 was 424.
Parish Clerk, Charles Hurrel
POST OFFICE.- Robert Phœnix, receiver. Letters through Wymondham, arrive at 8.30 a.m. & are dispatched at 5.50 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph offices are at Attleborough and Hingham
PILLAR LETTER BOX (Low Common), cleared at 5.30 p.m week days
INSURANCE AGENT.- Liverpool & London & Globe, H. Shaw
National school (mixed), erected in 1851, for 84; average attendance, 62; Mrs Georgina Penlington, mistress.
CARRIERS.- John Raynor, from Rockland, & —- Knott, from Rockland, passes through to Norwich on wed. & sat
- Peacock Mrs. South End cottage
- Porter Rev. Jacob M.A [curate]
- Wanklyn Rev. Hibbert [vicar], Vicarage
Commercial
- Allen William, farmer & cattle dealer, Hall farm
- Baldwin Frederick, farmer, South hill
- Bateson John, Halfmoon P. H. & blacksmith, The Green
- Bolton Arthur W., farmer, Stalland
- Brunton John, farmer
- Bush John, farmer & shopkeeper, The Green
- Clarke Hannah (Mrs.), farmer
- Clarke James William, farmer
- Clarke Thomas Leeder, farmer, High Elm
- Clements James Blackwell, carpenter & wheelwright, The Green
- Dack Robert, farmer
- Eason Robert, farmer, Red Barn
- Fielding Henry, farmer, Low common
- Gathergood William, beer retailer, Low common
- George Jeremiah, shopkeeper & beer retailer, The Green
- Hart William, farmer, Stalland
- Harwood George Jabez, farmer, Stalland
- Hurrell Charles, farmer, High Elm & Hingham road
- Jude Charles, farmer & drill owner, Hingham road
- Lord Robert, bricklayer
- Lyngcoln William, farmer, Pattengill farm
- Martin James, farmer, Stalland
- Minns Reuben, farmer
- Page William, shopkeeper
- Patrick William, farmer, The Green
- Penlington Thomas, assistant overseer, collector of taxes & highway surveyor, The Green
- Phœnix Robert, farmer & postmaster, The Green
- Phœnix Robert, jun., thrashing machine owner, Stalland
- Phœnix Samuel, farmer, Low common
- Phœnix Taylor, thatcher & farmer
- Pitts Philip, farmer
- Potter Alfred, carpenter, Stalland
- Riches John, farm bailiff to Mrs. Hannah Clarke
- Ringer Urban, farmer; & at Wramplingham
- Rowing Archibald, farmer; & at Wicklewood
- Rowing Mary Ann (Miss), farmer, The Green
- Shaw Henry, farmer & landowner, Hingham road
- Shickle Sarah (Mrs.), farmer & landowner
- Smith George, shoe maker, The Green
- Smith Isaac, tailor, The Green
- Smith John, shoe maker, The Green
- Smith Walter, bricklayer, The Green
- Stone George, thatcher
- Sutton Thomas William, farmer, Church farm
- Turner William, draper & grocer
- Ward William, farmer
- Watling Henry, farmer
- Watts James, miller (wind); & corn, coal, cake, seed & manure merchant, farmer & landowner; & at Spooner Row
- Webster James, farmer
- Whitehand Charles, farmer, The Green
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