Norfolk: Great Fransham

Hunt's Directory of East Norfolk with Part of Suffolk, 1850

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FRANSHAM (GREAT), a village 22½ miles W. by N. of Norwich, 6½ miles W. of East Dereham, and the like distance E.N.E. of Swaffham. The parish comprises 1874 acres, and contained in 1841, 329 inhabitants; its present residents are:-

         Blanchflower Samuel             'Lord Nelson'
         Clark        David              grocery dealer
         Frost        Sarah              beer retailer
         Perkins      Jonathan           miller
         Ramm         William            'Chequers'
         Reynolds     Rev. Charles, B.A.
         Rump         Richard            'Pine Inn'
         Skeit        Edgar              railway clerk
 
                                  Farmers.
 
         Blanchflower James              Hubbard     William
         Claxton      Noah               Makins      John
         Drosier      Mary               Perkins     Jonathan
         Flood        Herbert            Rump        Richard
         Flood        John               Stanford    Samuel
         Gattercole   Ambrose            Wellington  William
         Godfrey      Masters            Wyatt       William
         Howell       Jacob
 

RAILWAY CONVEYANCE. Trains several times daily, to all places on the East Anglian line.

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