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EAST BECKHAM is a parish, about 4½ miles west-by-south from Cromer and 5 east from Holt, in the Northern division of the county, North Erpingham hundred, Erpingham union, Holt county court district, rural deanery of Repps. archdeaconry of Norfolk and diocese of Norwich. The church of St. Helen has been many years dilaidated: the only parts remaining are the southern porch and the walls of the nave and chancel. The poor's land produces £2 yearly. The Windham trustees are lords of the manor and chief landowners. The chief crops are wheat, turnips, barley and grass. The area is 782 acres, nearly all arable land; rateable value, £642 12s. 6d.: and the population in 1881 was 55. This place is included in the Gresham United School Board district, formed in 1873; the children attend th Board school at Gresham.——Letter through Dereham. Holt is the nearest money order & telegraph office.
1891 Census index
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