Norfolk: Ellingham

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

[Transcription copyright © Mike Bristow]

ELLINGHAM, on the north bank of the Waveney, 2 miles E.N.E. of Bungay, and 4 miles S. Loddon, has in its parish 398 souls, and 1302A. of land. John Kerrich, Esq., owns a great part of the soil, and is lord of the manor, but the Hall is the seat of Col. Smith.

The Church (St Mary,) is an ancient fabric, and the living is a rectory, valued in K.B. at £12, and in 1831 at £421, in the patronage of the Master of Magdalen College, Cambridge, and incumbency of the Rev. Rt. Cobb. The glebe is 120A. and the tithes have been commuted. The TOWN LANDS, mostly granted in the 16th century for the payment of tenths and fifteenths, and the relief of the poor, by the wills of Richd. Chamberlain and others, and partly by allotment and exchange, at the enclosure in 1806, consist of about 31A., with two cottages, now let for about £41 a year. The Poor's Allotment, 20A., was awarded at the enclosure, and is now let for £16 per annum. The poor of Ellingham have about £27 yearly from Bonfellow's Charity, as noticed with Kirby-Cane. The income derived from the sources above-named, amount to about £83 per annum, which is carried to the churchwarden's account, out of which the poor receive yearly distributions of about the following amounts, viz.:-- £37 in coals; £9 in bread and flour; £7 10s. in blankets; £1 10s. in tea and sugar; £4 17s. in shillings and sixpences at Easter; and £5 10s. in apprentice fees. They have also an annuity of 20s., left by one Packard, about 1822, out of a farm belonging to Mrs. Talent.

Directory:-

 Barber     Robert       grocer
 Botwright               brickmaker
 Burstall   Robt.        miller and coal merchant
 Cobb       Rev. Robert  Rectory
 Gooda      John         butcher
 Gordon     Alex.        vict., Lock House
 Hall       Thos.        butcher
 High       Jas.         vict., White Horse
 Nunn                    brickmaker
 Smith      Colonel      Hall
 Smith      Robert       millwright, &c.
 Spanton    Wm.          blacksmith
 Ward       James        vict., Bird-in-Hand
 
    farmers.
 Barwick    Wm.
 Boltitude  Jarvis
 Boon       Charles
 Chase      Robert
 Fisk       Anthony      (owner)
 Lynes      Joseph       (owner)
 Palmer     John
 Pettit     Widow        (owner)
 Read       Benj.
 Walker     Robert
 

See also the Ellingham parish page.

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January 2003