GENUKI: Norfolk: Foxley, Norfolk

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

FOXLEY, a pleasant village, 4 miles E. of North Elmham, and 5 miles W. of Reepham, has in its parish 293 souls, and 1620 acres of land, nearly all the property of Edwd. Lombe, Esq., except about 300A. belonging to the Earl of Leicester's Beck Hall estate. On the east side of the parish is a wood of 305A.

The Church (St. Thomas) has a handsome tower and six bells. The rectory, valued in the King's Book at £6. 13s. 4d., has 21A. 1R. 26P. of glebe, and a yearly rent of £410, awarded in 1839, in lieu of tithes. E. Lombe, Esq., the lord of the manor, is patron, and the Rev. Louis Augustus Norgate, B.A., is the incumbent, and has recently erected a commodious Rectory House.

At the enclosure, in 1814, two acres were set apart as a clay-pit for the parishioners, who participate in the Free School at Bawdeswell.

         Norgate   Rev Louis A., B.A.  Rectory
 
         Baker     Coulsey             shoemaker
         Everett   Wm.                 tea dealer
         Joyce     James               butcher
         Meal      John                tea dealer
         Sands     George              blacksmith
         Simmons   Wm.                 shoemaker and vict., Hare and Hounds
         Wright    Thomas              vict. Chequers
 
            FARMERS.
 
         Barker    James
         Bidwell   Wm.
         Dye       Henry
         Jones     James
         Lavender  Robert
         Lewell    Isaac
         Lewin     Charles             Manor Farm
         Simms     John
         Woodhouse Charles

Carrier to Norwich, Thomas Wright, Saturday

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