Norfolk: Cringleford

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

CRINGLEFORD, 2½ miles S.W. of Norwich, is a small village of neat houses, with a large corn-mill and a good bridge on the river Yare; and comprises in its parish 191 inhabitants, and about 1000A. of land, belonging to several proprietors; but the trustees of St. Giles' Hospital, Norwich, are lords of the manor, impropriators of the tithes, and patrons of the perpetual curacy, valued, in 1831, at £205, and now enjoyed by the Rev. Charles Turner.

The Church (St. Peter,) is a small edifice, with a square tower and three bells, and was a rectory till Sir Alexander de Vaux sold it to Bishop Suffield, who appropriated it to St. Giles' Hospital.

The village was totally consumed by fire in Elizabeth's reign, and an act was passed for its re-edification, in 1581. In the parish stood a free chapel, dedicated to St. Etheldred; but it went into decay soon after the Reformation.

The mill is of great antiquity; and in the low meadows behind it, at the depth of two feet, is a regular stratum of small shells. Stags' horns have likewise been found; and in 1795, on removing a mound of earth, about a furlong east of the hall, a great quantity of human bones was discovered, apparently thrown together in confusion at some visitation of the plague.

         Candler   Lawnce. & Horatio   millers
         Cole      Eliz.               wheelgt. & blacksmith
         Dixon     Rev Edm. S.         rector of Intwood
         Groom     Mary                schoolmistress
         Leeds     Miss Ann            Hall
         Patteson  Hy.                 brewer  [see note below]
         Patteson  Mrs Ann Eliz.               [see note below]
         Scarnell  Wm.                 butcher
         Smith     Rev W.J.
 
            FARMERS.
 
         Cannell   Abraham
         Dix       William
         Freeman   James
         Newman    Robert
 

Note: in the original this is:
     Patteson Hy. brewer, & Mrs Ann Eliz.

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