GENUKI: Norfolk: Bawdeswell, Norfolk

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

BAWDESWELL,a neat and pleasant village, with a good inn, on the Norwich and Fakenham road, 4 miles W. by S. of Reepham, has in its parish 582 souls, and 1163 acres. Edward Lombe, Esq., is lord of the manor, but a great part of the soil belongs to Robert Leeds, Esq., the Misses Lloyd, (of the Hall, built in 1683,) and a few smaller owners.

The ancient Church (All Saints,) of which the nave was destroyed by the fall of the steeple in 1739, was taken down in 1844, and rebuilt by subscription on a small scale, with only 317 sittings. The rectory, valued in K.B. at £7, and in 1844, at £330, is in the gift of E. Lombe, Esq., and incumbency of the Rev. Philip du Val Aufrere.

The FREE SCHOOL was founded in 1728, for 12 poor boys of this parish, and 8 of Foxley, by John Leeds, Esq., who endowed it with a house and 16A. 1R. 14P. of land, now let for £20. 19s. a year. It is now conducted as a National School, for about 70 children, and is held in the building which was erected in 1781 as a Workhouse for the parishes of Bawdeswell, Billingford, Bintree, Bylaugh, Foxley, Lyng, and Sparham, which are now in Mitford and Launditch Union. At the enclosure of Bawdeswell, in 1808, two acres were allotted as a gravel pit, and 35A. to the poor, who cut fuel upon it. The poor have also 20s. a year, left by Wm. Dewing, in 1719. Here is a small Methodist Chapel, erected in 1829.

 Barrett        Wm.                     beerhouse keeper
 Bear           John                    saddler
 Bird           John                    grocer and baker
 Browne         James                   vict. Ram Inn
 Cannell        Aquilla Wm.             saddler
 Catton         Mr George & Mr. Wm.
 Catton         Maria                   grocer and draper
 Comer          John                    blacksmith
 Cooper         Harriet                 schoolmistress
 Darkins        John                    tailor
 Elvin          Wm.                     corn miller
 Gibbs          Rev Wm. P., B.A.
 Kemp           Rev Nunn R. P.,B.A.     curate
 Leeds          Robert, Esq.
 Leeds          Chas.                   Bell Inn & Posting House
 Lincoln        Eliz.                   straw hat & dress maker
 Lloyd          Misses Eliza & Letitia  Hall
 Pearse         Robert                  butcher
 Pocklington    Jph.                    National School
 Sussens        Jph.                    plumber, painter, &c.
 Stonex         Mrs Elizabeth
 Street         Wm.                     grocer and draper
 Utting         Rt.                     wheelwgt. & vict. Crown
 Whitrod        Edm.                    blacksmith & wheelwright, Temperance
                                        Coffee House
 Whitesides     Wm.                     grocer and baker
 
    FARMERS.
   * are Owners
 *Allen          Charles
  Barker         Thomas
  Bidwell        Wm.
 *Bowman         James
  Catton         Wm.
  Custance       James
  Haylett        Stephen
 *Parke          John
  Pearse         Rt.                      buchr.
  Sizeland       Charles
  Tann           Benjamin
  Tann           James
 
   Shoemakers.
  Bunn           Robert
  Galland        John
  Johnson        James
  Ramm           John

COACHES and Carriers to Norwich, &c. call at the Inns daily

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