The Imperial Gazetteer 1872

The Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1872 contains the following entry for Deopham:-

DEOPHAM, a parish in Forehoe district, Norfolk; 34 miles N of Attleborough r. station, and 3 W by S of Wymondham. It has a post-office, of the name of Deopham-Green, under Wymondham.
Acres, 1,646.
Real property, £3,773.
Pop., 483.
Houses, 117.
The property is much subdivided. ¹
A lime-tree, at Deopham-High-Tree, near a petrifying spring, was described by Evelyn as 48 feet in girth at the ground, 36 feet at a yard above, and 25 at two yards.
The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £240. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury. The church is later English; and its chancel was restored in 1864. There are two Primitive Methodist chapels, a national school, and charities £21.

Footnotes

1. This classification of “much subdivided” is of importance when making statistical comparisons between Deopham and other parishes. ↩︎