Norfolk - Little Dunham

DUNHAM (LITTLE), 5 miles N.E. of Swaffham, is a small village and parish, with 354 souls, 80 houses, and 1,900 acres of land, mostly belonging to Jno. Copeman, Esq., and Messrs. W. Large, Jno. Jackson, Wm. Bale, and Mrs. Locke : the former is lord of the manor, and the owner of Dunham Lodge, a neat mansion occupied by — Salway, Esq. The CHURCH, dedicated to St. Margaret, is a small edifice, and the living is a rectory, valued in the King's book at £9 16s., in the patronage and incumbency of the Rev. John Nelson, who has a yearly rent of £500, awarded in 1840, in lieu of tithes. The glebe is 24a. 2r. 19p. The East Anglian Railway intersects the parish, and has a station here. The poor have 10s. a year left by Wm. Nelson ; and a house in Lynn, left by Thos. Warne, let for £21. The interest of £10 left by an unknown donor has not been paid for upwards of 20 years. The Poor's Allotment, awarded in 1796, contains 35a. 1r. 22p., and is let for £63 a year.

DIRECTORY—

John Allen, farm steward ;
Basham & Rout,
Sarah Beckett, and
Jas. Regester, shopkprs ;
Jno. Chamberlayne, blacksmith ;
Benj. Duffield, vict. Crown ;
Joseph Hey, carpenter ;
John Jackson, sen. and jun., gentn., Canister Hall ;
Jno. C. Lunn, station master ;
Rev. John Nelson, curate ;
Edw. Pilgrim, schoolmaster ;
— Salway, Esq., The Lodge ;
Robt. Tash, vict. and carpenter, Black Swan ;
Jas. Thompson, baker ;
Jno. Took, gardener ;
Mrs. My. Ann Watts;
and
Geo. Buscall,
Geo. Hubbard, and
Wm. Large,
farmers.

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