SOUTH REPPS is a parish and village 5 miles north-west from North Walsham and 5 south-east from Cromer; [?] mile from Gunton station on the railway to Cromer, in the Northern division of the county, Erpingham union, North Walsham county court district, North Erpingham hundred. rural deanery of Repps, and archdeaconry of Norfolk and diocese of Norwich. The church of St. James is a handsome building, consisting of chancel, nave, with lofty embattled tower containing 5 bells, with heavy buttresses, and south porch: two stained windows have been placed here on the south side, one by Archdeacon Glover, the other by Mr. J. Carter: the chancel has been restored by the rector. The register dates from the year 1558. The living is a rectory, gross yearly value £670, including 12 acres of glebe, with house, in the gift of the Duchy of Lancaster and held since 1862 by the Rev. Richard Hammed Gwyn M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford. The Wesleyans have a chapel here, erected in 1845. A cattle fair is held on the Tuesday fortnight after Whit-Sunday. Lord Suffield is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is mixed; subsoil gravel and sand. The chief crops are wheat, turnips. grass and barley. The area is 2,081 acres; rateable value, £3,464; and the population in 1881 was 831.
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ERPINGHAM UNION.
Board day, every alternate monday.
Clerk to the Guardians, Jas. Spurrell Plumbly, South Repps
Collectors to the Guardians & Relieving Officcers, Holt district, J. J. Nichols, Holt; North Walsham district, Robert Daniel Kimm, South Repps
Vaccination Officers, The Registrars of Births & Deaths
Medical Officers, Aldborough district, S. J. Barton M.B. Aldborough; Beckham district, R. T. Hales M.B. Holt; Briston district, J Hales, Holt; Cley-next-the-Sea district, W. Sumpter M.D. Cley-next-the-Sea; Cromer district, R. McKelvee M.D. Cromer; Holt district, J. Hales, Holt; North Repps district, A. E. Fluder, Cromer; North Walsham district, J. Shepheard, North Walsham
Public Vaccinators, The Medical Officers, except Cromer & North Repps districts; Cromer district, A. E. Fluder, Cromer
Superintendent Registrar, James Surrell Plumbly, South Repps
Registrars of Births & Deaths, No.1, North Walsham sub-district, Robert Daniel Kimm, South Repps; No.2, Cromer sub-district, J. Fox, Cromer; No.3, Holt sub-disrict, J. J. Nichols, Holt
Registrars of Marriages, Cley-next-the-Sea district, S. Starling, Cley-next-the-Sea; Cromer district, J. Fox, Cromer; Holt district, W. Pashley, Holt; North Walsham district, F. Gregory, North Walsham.
Workhouse, West Beckham, Thomas Potter, master; Rev. A.D. Spurgin B.A. chaplain; George Yallop, school master
RURAL SANITARY AUTHORITY.
Clerk, James Spurrell Plumbly, South Repps
Medical Office of Health, S. T. Taylor M.B. Grove house, St. Giles' road, Norwich
Inspector of Nuisances, Henry Denny, Thurgarton
This parish is contributory to the Antingham & South Repps School Board
Board School, William E. Amies, master
Gunton Railway Station, William Prime Taylor, station master
1891 Census Names Index
Stephen Dawson Will, 1728
White's 1845 [GENUKI-NFK]
Hunt's 1850 [GENUKI-NFK]
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