WEST LYNN is a village, parish and station on the Lynn and Sutton Bridge railway, situated on the west side of the Great Ouse river, opposite the town of King's Lynn, with which it communicates by ferry for foot passengers. There is a bridge, called the Marshland Iron Bridge, over the New Cut on the south side of the harbour, and carriages have to go round by this bridge, thus making the distance to Lynn by road nearly 3 miles. West Lynn is in the Western division of the county, hundred of Freebridge Marshland, union and county court district of King's Lynn, rural deanery of Lynn and archdeaconry and diocese of Norwich. The church of St. Peter was erected soon after the destruction of one which was washed away by the inundation of 1271, on a piece of ground which the then rector, William Pakenham, procured for that purpose; it is in the late Perpendicular style, having transepts, nave, square tower with 1 bell: there is a fine brass to Sir Adam Outlawe, who died in 1503: the east window is stained in four compartments, and represents The Three Martyrs at the Tomb of Our Saviour: it was erected in July 1849, to the memory of Amelia Walker, of North Lynn, by her three sisters: there is an ancient stone octagonal font with the seven sacraments of the Catholic church in relief upon it: the seats are of carved oak. The register dates from the year 1695. The living is a rectory, yearly value about £500, including 28 acres of glebe, in the gift of Joseph Phipps Townsend esq. M.A. and held since 1863 by the Rev. Frederick Jackson M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge. Here are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels. There are charities amounting to £12 a year. The land is all freehold. The trustees of the late Christopher Goddard, Sir William Hovell Browne ffolkes bart. M.P., D.L., J.P. William Clifton esq. the Dean and Chapter of Ely and the Ouse Outfall Board, are the principal landowners. The soil is loam and clay; subsoil, clay and silt. The chief crops are wheat, oas, beans, peas amd pasture. The area of the parish is 1,619 acres; rateable value, £4,185 15s.; the population in 1881 was 576.
There is a National school for boys & girls; Edward Ambrose Mitchley, master
Railway Station, James Blackburn, station master
1891 Census Names Index
Marriages Index (1730-1812) [Alan Gresley]
White's 1883 [Nigel Pendall]
West Lynn postmill {Jonathan Neville]
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