GENUKI: Norfolk: Strumpshaw, Norfolk

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William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1845

STRUMPSHAW is a well-built, but dispersed village, on an eminence, 8½ miles E. by S. of Norwich, comprising within its parish 412 inhabitants, and about 1200 acres, belonging to a number of freeholders and some copyholders; the latter are subject to arbitrary fines, payable to the heirs of the late E. Walpole, Esq., as lords of the manor. The ancient lords were the Dan-Martins and the Bardolphs.

The Church (St. Peter,) was new pewed and covered with blue slate, in 1819, at the cost of £150. The living is a rectory, valued in the King's Book at £8, and in 1831 at £486, with that of Bradestone annexed to it, in the patronage and incumbency of the Rev. E.S. Whitbread, M.A., who has a commodious residence, and 64A. of glebe. The tithes of Strumpshaw were commuted in 1844, for £370 per annum.

The windmill, in this parish, is supposed to stand on the highest hill in Norfolk, and the prospect which it commands is certainly the finest coup d'œil in the county, extending to Yarmouth, Norwich, the light houses of Happisburgh, and the country southward to the borders of Suffolk. This lofty eminence of sand and gravel has the appearance of having been thrown up by the sea; and 100 feet below the summit, boulder stones are found of the same description as those on the coast near Yarmouth.

The Fuel Allotment, about 10A. of marsh, was awarded at the enclosure in 1810, and is let for £9 a year. The poor have also a coomb of wheat yearly, out of Mr. Atkin's farm, pursuant to the bequest of Wm. Black, in 1755.

           Atkins    Thomas          gentleman
           Alexander Robert          tailor
           Agus      Wm.             vict. Goat
           Drury     Richard         schoolmaster
           Denton    James           timber merchant
           Dingle    John            shopkeeper
           Goffen    Alexander       bricklayer
           Goffen    Thomas          brickmaker
           Hilling   Robert          shopkeeper
           Hylton    John            blacksmith
           Johnson   John            tailor
           Oakley    Thomas          parish clerk
           Plow      Christopher     shoemaker
           Porter    Benjamin        coal dealer
           Smith     Robert          blacksmith
           Spooner   John            wheelwright & vict. Shoulder of Mutton
           Tuck      Thomas Gilbert,
                       Esq
           Wales     Robert          cattle dealer
           Welch     George          corn miller, &c
           Wells     Mary            boarding school
           Whitbread Rev Edmund
                       Salter, M.A.  Rectory
 
             FARMERS.
         (* are Owners.)
 
         * Atkins    Thos.
           Atkins    Thomas, jun
         * Barnes    John T.
         * Palmer    Charles
           Pyle      John
         * Wells     Wm.

Carrier to Norwich, Rd. Beck, Sat.

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William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1845