1892 Kelly’s Directory
DEOPHAM is a parish, 3 miles from Kimberley station, 4 north from Attleborough station on the Thetford and Norwich railway, and 4 south-west from Wymondham, comprising the small village of DEOPHAM GREEN, 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 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 was thoroughly restored and new roofed and new windows inserted in 1884 at a cost of over £2,000, and the porch has also been restored: the estimated cost for the restoration of the tower is £750: there are 280 sittings. The register dates from the year 1560. The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £135, net yearly value £75, with 23 acres of glebe in Shipdham and 6 acres in this parish, and residence, 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 each child 8s., the remainder being given in bread to the poor. A sum of about £12, arising from 14 acres of land, awarded at the inclosure in 1814 in lieu of common rights, is distributed among the poor in coal 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., P.C. 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 1,661 acres; rateable value, £2,631; the population in 1891 was 395.
Parish Clerk, Charles Hurrell.
POST OFFICE.- Robert Phœnix, receiver. Letters throughWymondham, arrive at 8.30 a.m. & are dispatched at 5.50 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Hingham. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid
PILLAR LETTER BOX (Low Common), cleared at 5.30 p.m. weekdays
National School (mixed), erected in 1851, for 84 children; average attendance, 62; Mrs. Georgina Penlington, mistress
CARRIERS.- John Raynor, from Rockland, & —- Knott, from Rockland, pass through to Norwich on wed. & sat.
- Peacock Mrs. South End cottage
- Porter Rev. Jacob M.A [rector of Hackford]
- Rowing Miss, The Green
- Wanklyn Rev. Hibbert [vicar], Vicarage
Commercial:
- Allen Herbert, farmer, Old farm
- Allen William, farmer & cattle dealer, Hall farm
- Baldwin Frederick, farmer, South hill
- Bateson John, Halfmoon P. H. & blacksmith, The Green
- Bowman Walter, farmer, High elm
- Bush John, farmer & shopkeeper, The Green
- Clarke Hannah (Mrs.), farmer, Mill farm
- Clarke James William, farmer
- Clarke Thomas Leeder, farmer, Stalland
- Clements James Blackwell, carpenter & wheelwright, The Green
- Dack Robert, farmer
- Gathergood William, beer retailer and farmer, Low common
- Hart John William, farmer, Glass Bottle farm
- Harwood George Jabez, farmer, Stalland
- Howling Robert, farmer
- Hurrell Charles, farmer, High Elm farm & Hingham road
- Jude Charles, farmer & drill owner, Hingham road
- Lake George, farmer, Low common
- Lord Robert, bricklayer
- Lyngcoln William, farmer, Pattengill farm
- Martin James, farmer, Stalland
- Minns Reuben, farmer
- Mordey Alfred, miller (wind)
- Morter John, farmer, Red barn
- Nicholls Alfred, farmer, Low common
- Page William, shopkeeper
- Patrick William, farmer, South hill
- Phœnix Robert, jun., thrashing machine owner, Stalland
- Phœnix Samuel, farmer, Low common
- Phœnix Walter C, farmer, The Green
- Phœnix-Stone Martha Ann (Miss), farmer
- Pitts Jane (Mrs.), farmer
- Potter Alfred, carpenter, Stalland
- Read John, beer retailer, The Green
- Riches John, farm bailiff to Mrs. Hannah Clarke
- Ringer Urban, farmer
- Shaw Henry, farmer & landowner, Hingham road
- Smith Fras. Robert, farmer, Church farm
- Smith George, shoe maker, The Green
- Smith Isaac, tailor, The Green
- Smith John, shoe maker, The Green
- Stone George, thatcher
- Turner William, draper & grocer
- Ward William, farmer
- Watling Henry, farmer
- Webster James, farmer
- Whitehand Charles, farmer, The Green
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