Norfolk - Wretham, East & West

Francis White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory, of Norfolk 1854, p. 832

WRETHAM (EAST AND WEST), about 6 miles N.N.E. of Thetford, are two adjoining parishes. East Wretham has 40 houses, 219 souls, and 2,572 acres of land, a small village of its own name, and another called Stone Bridge, nearly a mile E. of the church. West Wretham has 26 houses, 166 souls, and 3,121 acres, and includes Wretham Hall, a neat mansion in a park, about a mile N.W. of the church. This mansion is the seat of Wyrley Birch, Esq., owner of both parishes, lord of the manor, and patron of the consolidated rectories, valued in 1831 at £550, and in the King's book at £24 3s. 6½d. The Rev. James P. Whalley, B.A. is the incumbent. East Wretham Church, dedicated to St. Ethelbert, is a small neat edifice ; but that of West Wretham has long been in ruins. A new rectory house was built some years ago, and the tithes are commuted for £539. A school has recently been built by the lord of the manor.

DIRECTORY.—
(Marked * are at Stone Bridge.)
George Wyrley Birch, Esq., Forest Lodge ;
Rev. James Park Whalley, B.A., rectory;
John Ferguson, land agent ;
My. Abbott,* shopkeeper ;
Robert Chilvers, vict. Dog and Partridge;*
Saml. Kitton Gayford, farmer ; and
Henry Ovington,* corn miller.
Those in West Wretham are
Wyrley Birch, Esq., and
Thos. Jacob Birch, Esq., judge of County Court, Hall ;
Frederick Fisher, farmer, Thorpe Hall : and
Lucy Palmer & Sons, farmers, Foulmere.

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