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Norfolk - Tasburgh

Kelly's Directory for Cambridgeshire, Norfolk & Suffolk, 1883, p.514.

TASBURGH is a village and parish 1½ miles south-east from Flordon station, and 8 south from Norwich, siuated on the river Tas, in the Southern division of the county, Depwade hundred, and union, Harleston [sic. Norwich] county court district, rural deanery of Depwade, archdeaconry of Norfolk and diocese of Norwich. The church of St. Mary the Virgin is a structure of flint with stone dressings in the Decorated style and consists of chancel, nave and north porch, and a very ancient towe. The register dates from the year 1558. The living is a rectory, yearly value £287, with residence, in the gift of J. Jerm esq. and held sice 1837 by the Rev. Henry Edmund Preston M.A. of Queen's College, Cambridge. Here is a Friends' meeting house. The charities amount to £30 yearly, besides £14 rent of fuel allotment. The vilage derives its name fom the river Tas, anciently the Taus, on which the Romans had a station, called Ad Taum, which is an entrenchment of 24 acres on a high hill. The trustees of the late Capt. Gwyn and the trustees of the late Lieut.-Col. the Hon. F. Walpole M.P. are the principal landowners, The soil is various; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and beans. The ara is 916 acres; rateable value, £1,408; in 1881 the parish contained 446 inhabitants.

Parish Clerk

POST OFFICE.--William Cann, receiver. Letters by foot post from Long Stratton, arrive about 7.30 a.m.; dispatched at 6 p.m. Long Stratton is the nearest money order & telegraph office

National School, Miss Mary Ormsby, mistress

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