Norfolk: Flitcham cum Appleton: Flitcham

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

FLITCHAM is an ancient village, lying in a picturesque valley, north of Hillington Park, 9 miles N.E. of Lynn, and including within its parish several dispersed farm-houses, 428 inhabitants, and 4,108 acres of fertile land, including about 20 souls, and 700 acres in Appleton, which is united with it for the support of the poor, as has been seen at page 585 [which is the entry for Appleton].

The Earl of Leicester is lord of the manor, owner of the soil, and patron of the CHURCH, (Virgin Mary,) which is a curacy, certified at £20, but augmented from 1780 to 1812, with £800 of Queen Anne's Bounty, and valued in 1831 at £54. The Rev. Wm. Leach, M.A., of Dersingham, is the incumbent.

In the outbuildings of a farm-house are some remains of Flitcham Priory, founded in the reign of Henry III., by Sir Robert Aguillon, for Augustine canons, subject to the Prior of Walsingham, and valued, at the dissolution, at £62 10s. 6½d. per annum. On the hill above the village, is a remarkable tumulus, called Flitcham Burgh, where the Hundred Court was anciently held.

Directory:-

         Billing    Thomas        wheelwright
         Bridges    Henry         blacksmith and vict., Bell
         Burrell    Henry         butcher
         Cook       James         parish clerk
         Green      James         shoemaker
         Lambert    J.            shopkeeper
         Rippingall Martin        vict., New Inn
 
            farmers.
 
         Burrell    William
         Brereton   George
         Middleton  Wm. and John
 

See also the Flitcham cum Appleton parish page.

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