Norfolk: Bale

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

BALE, or Bailthley, on a declivity, 5 miles W. by S. of Holt, has in its parish 229 souls, and 1041A. of land, all arable, except 200A. of wood and pasture. Sir L. Jones, Bart., owns part of the soil, and is lord of the manor.

The CHURCH (All Saints,) has a square tower and four bells; and near it is the lifeless trunk of a large oak, in the hollow of which twelve men might have stood upright, in Blomefield's time. The rectory, valued in the King's Book at £10. 13s. 4d., is consolidated with Gunthorpe rectory, in the patronage and incumbency of the Rev. J.H. Sparke. The glebe here is 21A. 39P., and the tithes of Bale were commuted, in 1839, for £311. 10s. per annum. The CHURCH LAND is 2A.

The sum of £16. 10s., left to the poor by Chpr. Ringer, in 1678, was laid out in land, which was exchanged at the enclosure, in 1811, for 4A. 1R. 22P., now let for £6. 5s.

DIRECTORY:-

         Abram      Wm.                shoemaker
         Farrow     Robt.              miller & baker
         Harrold    Robt.              vict. Angel and Oak
         Key        John Sayer         bricklayer
         Long       Mrs. Amy
         Packer     Rev. Robt.         curate
                      Waldegrave, B.A.
 
            farmers
 
         Abram      John               (owner)
         Arnold     Samuel
         Burrell    John
         Curtis     Charles
         Greve      Robert
         Gutteridge John               (owner)
         Long       James
 

See also the Bale parish page.

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