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Norfolk - Northwold

Kelly's Directory for Cambridgeshire, Norfolk & Suffolk, 1883, p.402.

NORTHWOLD is a parish and village, 3 miles south-east from Stoke Ferry station of the Great Eastern railway, 7½ north from Brandon, and 95 from London, on the road from Thetford to Lynn and on the river Wissey, in the Western division of the county, Grimshoe hundred, Thetford union and county court district, Cranwich rural deanery, Norfolk archdeaconry and Norwich diocese. The church of St. Andrew is a building in the Perpendicular and Early English styles, having chancel, nave and aisles, and tower built in the fourteenth century, containing 8 bells a modern clock: the tower and church are built principally of flint, and the tower has various devices inlaid in this material, and its top is ornamented with eight pinnacles: the roof of the nave is of oak, painted and richly gilt and ornamented with angels with extended wings. The register dates from the year 1650. The living is a rectory, tithe rent-charge £896, with 66 acres of glebe and house, in the gift of the Bishop of Norwich and held since 1880 by the Rev. William Cowper Johnson M.A. of Caius College, Cambridge, hon. canon of Norwich. There is a large and handsome Wesleyan chapel, and one for Primitive Methodists. There are almshouses for 9 poor people, erected by the late Mrs. Norman in 1874 in memory of her husband, the Rev. Charles Manners Richard Norman M.A. late rector of this parish, and endowed by her with £500 £3 per cent. Consols for keeping them in good repair. The charities are of £170 yearly value, and there were 118 acres of fuel allotment, which were by the Enclosure Commissioners allotted to the cottages. A fair is held yearly, on the 30th of November and the following day. There is a large chalk pit in this parish. The village is most pleasantly situated, and contains several very pretty residences. The old school is now used as a village hall, where parochial meetings and entertainments are held. Here is a reading room, endowed by the late Mrs. Norman with £500 £3 per cent. Consols; it has a library of 150 volumes. H. S. Partridge esq. who is lord of the manor, R. Carter esq. and W. Amhurst Tyssen Amherst esq. M.P., J.P. and Mr. John Pryer are the principal landowners. The soil is a mixture of loam, sand, chalk and fen; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips. The area is 5,214 acres; rateable value, £7,545; and the population in 1881 was 1,206.

WHITTINGTON, a hamlet of this parish, is given under a separate heading.

Parish Clerk, George Warren.

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POST, MONEY ORDER & TELEGRAPH OFFICE & Savings Bank.— Frank Upton, postmaster. Letters arrived from Brandon & are delivered at 7 a.m. & 1.40 p.m.; dispatched at 10 a.m. and 7.20 p.m.

WALL LETTER BOX, East end, cleared at 6 p.m.

INSURANCE AGENTS.—

Law Union Fire & Life, Walter Robert Walpole
Norwich Union Fire & Life, G. J. Denny, Sycamore ho

Collector of Assessed Property & Income Taxes, Frederick Fuller

SCHOOLS:—

National, William Osborne Bradley, master; Mrs. Sarah Bradley, mistress

Infant, Miss Elizabeth Masten, mistress

CARRIER.— Crisp, to Brandon, on monday, wednesday & friday; to Lynn, on tuesday & saturday

PRIVATE RESIDENTS.

M.A.

R.N.

COMMERCIAL.