Norfolk: Rockland St Peter

William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1883

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ROCKLAND ST. PETER is a parish of scattered houses, 5½ miles S.E. of Watton, and 4 miles W.N.W. of Attleborough. It is in Wayland union, hundred, and petty sessional division, Attleborough county court district, Norwich bankruptcy district, Watton polling district of West Norfolk, Rockland rural deanery, and Norfolk archdeaconry. It had 254 inhabitants in 1881, living on 1010 acres of land, of a rateable value of £2356. About 200 acres and the church are in Shropham hundred.

Sir William B. Smijth, Bart., is lord of the manors of Kirkehall, Maynes, and Garneys, and owns about 431 acres of the soil, the rest of which belongs to the Barnard, Muskett, and other families.

The CHURCH (St. Peter) is a thatched edifice in the Early English style, and comprises nave, chancel, north porch, and round tower with octagonal belfry and one bell. The rectory, valued in the King's Book at £4 16s. 5½d., and now worth £266 a year, is in the patronage of T.W. Rackham, Esq., Norwich, and incumbency of the Rev. J.A. Bulman Fleming, who has 22A. 3R. 22P. of glebe, and an Elizabethan residence erected in 1840.

The Primitive Methodists have a chapel here, erected in 1859.

The parish is united with Rockland All Saints and St. Andrew's for school purposes, and a Board School for 100 children was built here in 1877. The Fuel Allotment, 15A. 34P., awarded in 1814, is let for £20. Here are also 2A. 26P. of old poor's land.

POST from Attleborough viâ Rockland All Saints. Pillar Letter Box cleared at 6.30 p.m.

         Barnard   James          landowner
         Barker    Robert         vict. The Magpie
         Brett     Mrs Mary       victualler, The Bell
         Catchpole Charles        bricklayer
         Clarke    Jacob          shoemaker
         Clarke    John           shoemaker
         Coleman   Thomas Hovell  farmer
         Dove      John           provision dealer
         Drake     Miss Ellen     schoolmistress
         Dye       John           carrier
         Fielding  James          farmer
         Fleming   Rev. James A.
                     Bulman       The Rectory
         Groom     John           farmer
         Leech     Joseph         farmer
         Lincoln   John           miller and farmer
         Linsted   Charles        farmer
         Lister    James          farmer
         Sayer     Arthur         farmer and registrar of births, deaths,
                                    and marriages for Watton district,
                                    and sanitary inspector of Attleboro'
                                    district of Wayland union
         Sexton    Christmas      shoemaker
         Smith     William        machinist and farmer
         Standley  Jas.           blacksmith and shopkpr
         Whall     Mrs Harriet    shopkeeper
 

CARRIERS - John Dye, to Norwich, Wed. & Sat.

See also the Rockland St Peter parish page.

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April 2016