GENUKI: Norfolk: Tunstall, Norfolk

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

TUNSTALL, 8 miles W. of Yarmouth, is a parish in Blofield union, Walsham hundred, Blofield and Walsham petty sessional division, Yarmouth county and bankruptcy court district, Freethorpe polling district of South Norfolk, Blofield rural deanery, and Norwich archdeaconry. It had 106 inhabitants in 1881, and comprises 1605 acres. The rateable value is £2276. The parish is mostly the property of Algernon A. Fountaine, Esq., the lord of the manor; but the Bateley family, Mrs. Boult, Sir H. J. Stracey, Bart., and Bacon Frank, Esq., have small estates here.

The CHURCH (St. Peter and St. Paul) appears to have been a good building of the 15th century, but it has long been in ruins except the chancel, which was fitted up for divine service in 1705. In 1853 it was reseated with neat open benches at a cost of £350, contributed by the landowners. In the parish chest is a register commencing in 1557, but it has the appearance of being only a copy. A double piscina still remains.

No tithes have been paid within the memory of man, but in 1848 they were estimated at £389 a year. The living is a vicarage, certified at £6 13s. 4d., and now valued at £67 10s. per annum. It was augmented from 1743 to 1801 with £800 of Queen Anne's Bounty, which was laid out in the purchase of 30A. 1R. 36P. of land, now let for £50 a year. The Bishop of Norwich is patron, and the Rev. Thomas C. Haddon, LL.B., of Yarmouth, is the incumbent, and has £6 a year from the lay rector.

POST from Halvergate, via Acle.

         Arnip     George       marshman
         Lawn      William      parish clerk
         Moore     Mrs R. J.    frmr.; h Halvergate
         Powley    Joseph       coal dealer and wherry owner
         Skinner   James        farmer
         Waters    Henry        farmer
         Youngs    Scurrell     vict. Stracey Arms

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