GENUKI: Norfolk: Foulden, Norfolk

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William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1864

FOULDEN, or Fouldon parish, has a large straggling village, 8 miles S.S.W. of Swaffham, and contains 517 inhabitants and 3395 acres of land, mostly the property of W.A.T. Amhurst, Esq., who is lord of the manors of Latimer and Warren; but Mrs. Horrex and Edmund Oldfield, Esq., have estates here, and the latter resides at the Hall, a neat modern mansion which has recently been much improved.

The Church (All Saints) is in the decorated style, and comprises nave with aisles, north and south porches, chancel and vestry. The tower has long been an ivy-mantled ruin, but the rest of the building was restored about 20 years ago. The lower part of the ancient rood screen still remains, and the chancel contains a piscina and an organ.

The discharged vicarage, valued in the King's Book at £10. 2s., is consolidated with the rectory of Oxburgh. The great tithes of Foulden are in the appropriation of Gonville and Caius College, and were commuted in 1839 for £267. 19s., and the vicarial tithes for £178. 3s. 6d. per annum. Here are 110A. 2R. of glebe, and a vicarage house, occupied by the curate.

The National School, now attended by 50 children, was built in 1840, and has a yearly rent-charge of £5. left by Burnham Raymond, in 1728, for schooling 12 poor children.

At the enclosure, 322A. 37P. were left open for supplying occupiers of the ancient cottages with pasturage and fuel. For distribution among the poor, in kersey, duffel, and flannel, Foulden has every 5th year about £20, as the rent of 14A. 3R. 22P. of land at Old Buckenham, purchased with £60, left by Edmund Atmere in 1579, for the poor of this parish, and the poor of Feltwell, Northwold, Weeting, and Brandon, in rotation. About Easter, £18. 15s. are distributed among the most industrious parishioners of Foulden. It arises as follows:- £11. 7s. from 6A. left by Eliz. Long in 1662, 1A. derived from the bequests of Robert Fuller and another donor, and £7. 8s. from 7A. at Stoke Ferry, given by an unknown donor.

POST from Brandon, via Northwold.

         Easter     Robert Matthews   parish clerk
         Everett    John              blacksmith
         Gray       Anthony           estate carpenter
         Hardy      David             shoemkr. & vict. White Hart
         Horrex     Mrs Sarah
         King       Charles           beerhouse and bricklayer
         Layng      Rev. Henry, M.A.  curate, Vicarage
         Lusher     Elizabeth         schoolmistress
         Richardson Mr John
 
                               FARMERS.
 
         Baker      John              Jarred    Mrs
         Carter     William           Lusher    George
         Dixon      Robert            Nelson    Francis
         Dorman     Thomas            Oldfield  Edmund, (owner) Hall
         Everett    Matthew           Pond      Joseph
         Horrex     Anthony
 
            SHOPKEEPERS.
 
         Carter     James
         Howard     David
         Ramshaw    John
         Riches     Edward

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William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1864