THORNHAM is a parish and village 20 miles north-east from Lynn and 5 eas-north-east from Hunstanton railway station, in the Western division of the county, Smithdon hundred, Docking union, Little Walsingham county court district, Heacham rural deanery, Norfolk archdeaconry and diocese of Norwich, situated on the German ocean and on the coast road from Wells to Lynn. The church of All Saints is a spacious structure of flint, in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, lofty nave, with clerestory, aisles, large porch with chamber above, in which the vestry meetings are usually held, small vestry and an unfinished tower at the west end containing 1 bell: the clerestory windows are perfect: the nave is seated with thick oaken benches: the pulpit is also of oak, bearing date 1631: the lower portion of the old screen under the chancel arch still remains, on which are several painted figures, nearly obliterated: the piscina is in the usual place and the font is octagonal and raised: the chancel was restored in 1877, at a cost of £2,8100, defrayed by Capt. Ames-Lyde, assisted by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The register dates from the year 1716. The living is a discharged vicarage, with Holme-next-the-sea annexed, joint yearly value £420, with residence and 14 acres of glebe, in the alternate gift of the Bishop of Norwich and Thomas L'Estrange Ewan esq. of the Rookery, Dedham, Essex, and held since 1876 by the Rev. Edward Ewan M.A. of St. Peter's College Cambridge. There are places here for worship for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists. These charities of £30 annual value for the benefit of the poor, together with about 29 acres of land reserved for fuel: also 8 acres of land for repairs of the church. There is a lecture room in connection with the church. Here is a lime-kiln, and bricks are made in the parish. Mrs. Ames-Lyde is lady of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is partly loam and chalk; subsoil, brick earth and chalk. The crops are wheat, barley, oats, turnips, beans and mangold-wurtzel. The area is 2,154 acres pf land and 780 of water; rateable value, £3,957; the population in 1881 was 653.
Sexton, John Mallett.
POST, MONEY ORDER & TELEGRAPH OFFICE & Savings Bank, John Edwards, sub-postmaster. Letters received through Lynn, by mail cart, arrive at 8 a.m. & are dispatched at 4.45 p.m. Brancaster is the nearest telegraph office
Church of England School (mixed) was erected in the year 1858 by the late William Hogge esq. Richard Harris, master; Mrs. Julia Anne Harris, mistress; Miss Elizabeth Bevington, infants' mistress. The school wil hold 160; avrage attendance, 106
CARRIER TO;—
HEACHAM, S, & other places between Thornham and LYNN.—George Overton, every sat.; Robert Alle, tues.; Robert Tipple, tues
HOLME NEXT - THE - SEA & HUNSTANTON—George Overton, every wed. & sat
Ames-Lyde Mrs. Mrs. Thornham cottage
Brooke Robert
Bunting Miss
Ewen Rev. Edward M.A. Vicarage
Heading George, The Hall
James Miss
Johnson Misses, Beech house
Nurse Daniel
COMMERCIAL.
Allen Robert, Chequers inn, farmer
Callaby Francis, bricklayer
Crane Edward, carpenter
Crane Jsph. King's Head inn, & farmer
Crane Thomas, miller (wind) & baker
Curtis William, market gardener, shopkeeper & newsagent
Eagle Thomas, tinman & brazier
Earl Edward, mastr mariner
Edwards Wm. boot & shoe ma. & postmaster
Flegg Ann (Mrs.), Oak inn Flegg Isaac, saddler & harness maker
Green John Saml. farmer Malthouse frm
Green William, shoe maker
Haines Thomas, butcher
Heading Geo. farmer, Hall & Manor farms
Helsdon Wm. butcher & assistant overseer
Howard John, carpenter & joiner
Howard William, shoe maker
Howard William Coley, farmer
Jones Thomas, carter
Lewis Frederick, baker
Lincoln James, shoe maker
Pattrick Robert, brick & tile maker
Powell James, blacksmith
Renaut Samuel, jun. farmer
Renaut Thos. (exors. of , grocers & drapers [Note:— ")" omitted]
Sadler Elizabeth (Mrs.), beer retailer Sutherland Jane (Mrs.), fisher & coal dlr
Tipple Robert, carter
Yaxley Edward, blacksmith
