BARNINGHAM [sic BANNINGHAM], 2½ miles N.E. of Aylsham, is a parish and straggling village with 79 houses, 330 souls, and 908 acres of land, the property of various owners: W. H. Windham, Esq. is lord of the manor. The Church, dedicated to St. Botolph, has a square tower, with one bell, the other two being sold in 1808 towards paying the expense of releading the nave. It was repewed in 1836-7, and the windows contain some fragments of ancient stained glass. The rectory, valued in the King's book at £10 6s. 10d., is in the gift of S. Bignold, Esq., and incumbency of the Rev. Wm. Jex Blake, who has 17a. of glebe, and a yearly rent of £383, awarded in 1842, in lieu of tithes. The Primitive Methodists have a chapel here, and a National School was built in 1820. The poor have £4 10s. yearly from land left by the Rev. Saml. Wanley, in 1723, who gave the rectory house and garden for the use of succeeding rectors. The poor have also 30s. a-year from 3 roods, called the Labourers' Pightle.
DIRECTORY—
Nathl. Castle, national school;
Wm. Casto. blacksmith ;
Philip Elden, par. clk. ;
Wm. Elden, grocer and vict. Crown ; Wm. Frost, brick and tile mkr. ;
Saml. Mackling, machine mkr ;
Nathl. Newstead, wheelwright and vict. Bridge Inn ;
Peter Scottow, shopkeeper ;
Mrs. My. Ann Sexton ;
J. Spink, corn miller ;
Rev. Samuel Trueman, M.A., curate.
Farmers—
B. W. Bowles,
Edmund Critoph,
Wm. Culley,
Wm. B. Elden,
Jno. Fairman,
Jno. Frostick,
Wm. Edwd. Griffin,
Geo. Neech,
John Printer (and cattle dlr.),
Ann and Wm. E. Rump,
Jno. Sharpin,
Thos. Spink, and
Robt. Turner.
