Low Common

Also called Deopham Moore

Photo: G. Sankey, 8/2025

Contents

1. Location
2. Deopham Moor
3. 1814 Inclosures
4. Navigation

Location

This extract from Faden’s 1797 Map of Norfolk (digitally redrawn by Andrew Macnaire December 2004) shows Low Common at the northern end of the village. It has retained the same name from early times (there is a reference in the Court of the Manor of Deopham of the Dean & Chapter of Canterbury September 1636 to Low Common) through to the current times.

Deopham Moor

The record of the Court held for the Manor of Deopham of the Dean & Chapter of Canterbury on September 24^th 1638 referred to
“a windmill (now defunct) built in a Common of Deopham called Low Common alias Deopham Moore, near the watermill of Miles Hobart”.

There were further references to Deopham Moor:-

At the Court of the same Manor held on September 18^th 1637, Edmund Cock was fined 4 shillings for
“Digging and carrying away the soil of the Lord of this Manor at Deopham Moore”.

At a later Court of this Manor, Sarah Ellis acknowledged that she was a freehold tenant of
“a messuage in Churchstreet in Deopham, abutting a pasture in Deopham called Deopham Moore”.

1814 Inclosures

Low Common was radically changed by being divided and fenced. It was the largest single common to be redistributed by the 1814 process.
There is more information on the Inclosures here.

Navigation

Date	Change
22/6/26	Deopham Moor
29/8/25	Published