1912 Kelly’s Directory
DEOPHAM is a parish, 2½ miles south from Kimberley station, 4 north from Attleborough station on the Thetford and Norwich line of the Great Eastern 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, south 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 £230: 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 since been restored: there are 280 sittings. The register dates from the year 1560. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £180, with 20 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 1895 by the Rev. John Samuel Treglown B. A. of Downing College, Cambridge. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are impropriators of the rectoriaI tithes. There are two Primitive Methodists chapels, one at Deopham Green, erected in 1837, and 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 £7 yearly, now appropriated for teaching four poor children to read and say the church catechism and for an annual sermon, the minister receiving 10s., the clerk 1s., and each child 8s., the remainder being given in bread to the poor. A sum of about £13, 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 Crown and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor, and the two former are the principle landowners. The soil is marl; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, turnips and hay. The area is 1,661 acres; rateable value, £2,205; the population in 1911 was 341.
Sexton & Verger, John Goward.
Post Office.- William Turner, sub-postmaster. Letters through Wymondham S. O. arrive at 8.30 a.m. and 5.50 p.m. & are dispatched at 9.15 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; no Sunday delivery. Morley St. Botolph, 2 miles distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph office.
Pillar Letter Box, Low Common, cleared at 8 a.m. & 6.15 p.m.; The Green, 9.20 a.m. & 6.40 p.m. weekdays only.
Public Elementary School (mixed), a corrugated iron structure was erected in 1909, for 100 children; average attendance, 55; Mrs. H. E. Whitehouse, mistress.
Carriers.- from Rockland & Great Ellingham pass through to Norwich on wed. & sat.
- Allen Misses, Crown Farm house
- Treglown Rev. John Samuel B. A., Vicarage
Commercial:
- Allen Walter Charles, farmer, Hall & Crown farms
- Baker George, farmer, Low common
- Baldwin William, shopkeeper, assistant overseer & clerk to the Parish Council, Low common
- Barker Frederick, beer retailer, Low common
- Barrett Alfred, beer retailer, The Green
- Bowman Henrietta (Mrs.), farmer, High elm
- Bush Frederick, farmer, Low Common
- Bush John, farmer & shopkeeper, The Green
- Clarke Charles, farmer, Low common
- Clarke Charles Edward, miller, (wind)
- Clarke Edwin, farmer, Mill farm
- Clarke James Edward, farmer
- Gibson Arthur, Halfmoon P. H.
- Greenwood Walter Ernest, wheelwright, carpenter, painter & sign writer & undertaker & shoeing & general smith, The Green
- Hurrell Charles, farmer, Church farm
- Hurrell Robert, farmer
- Leverett Charles, farmer, Glassbottle farm
- Lloyd James Edward, builder, The Green
- Lincoln George, farmer
- Nicholls Alfred, farmer, Low common
- Peacock William Liddelow, farmer, Pettengills farm, The Green
- Phœnix Arthur, farmer, Low common
- Phœnix Frederick, thrashing machine owner
- Phœnix Walter Charles, farmer, Stalland
- Pitts Philip John Bayes, farmer, Low common
- Reynolds Thomas, farmer, South hill
- Ringer Urban, farmer
- Sizeland Samuel, farmer
- Smith Eldon, shoe maker, The Green
- Smith James Robert, farmer
- Turner William, grocer, Post office, The Green
- Wigby John Lindsay, farmer, Low common
- Woodrow David, farmer, The Green
- Woolnough George William, market gardener
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