GENUKI: Norfolk: Fritton, Norfolk

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William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1883

FRITTON, a pleasant village scattered round a green of 70 acres, 11 miles S. of Norwich, has its parish in Depwade union, petty sessional division, and hundred, Harleston county court district, Ipswich bankruptcy district, Stratton polling district of South Norfolk, Depwade rural deanery, and Norfolk archdeaconry.

It had 204 inhabitants in 1881, living on 890 acres of land, of a rateable value of £1281. The parish is in Mrs. F.W. Irby's manor of Boyland-cum-Fritton, but part of the soil belongs to Mrs. Howes, and other proprietors.

The CHURCH (St.Catherine) comprises nave, chancel, and round tower containing three bells, and was restored in 1853. Several mural paintings representing St. Christopher, St. George, &c., of a somewhat remarkable character, were discovered here in 1850. The church contains a good specimen of a rood screen (recently restored), with figures of the four Latin Fathers, &c.

The living, a discharged rectory, valued in the King's Book at £9, was augmented, in 1781, with £200 of Queen Anne's Bounty, and £200 given by the late Rev. Thomas Howes. It is in the patronage of Mrs. Howes, and incumbency of the Rev. Herbert Wilson, M.A., who has a good residence, about 17 acres of glebe, and a yearly tithe rent-charge of £286, awarded in 1833.

The Town lands, consisting of a farm of 13A. 2R. 1P., in Morningthorpe, and 3A. in Fritton, let for £30 a year, are supposed to have been left by John Alward, in 1506, for the repairs of the church, and the payment of the taxes of the poor. As far as needed, the rents are applied in the service of the church, and the remainder is carried to the poor's-rate.

The Labourers' land, 2A. in Hempnall, is let for £7.10s., which is expended in providing tools for poor labourers, for which purpose it is supposed to have been given.

The School is attended by about 50 children.

POST viâ Long Stratton; but Hempnall is the nearest Money Order and Stratton the nearest Telegraph Office. Letter-box at Stratton cleared at 12 noon and 6 p.m.

         Betts       Thomas             farmer and owner
         Biggs       Frederick William  farmer
         Moss & Wood                    maltsters; & Lowestoft
         Nash        Thomas Spooner     farmer and owner
         Rackham     Geo.               frmr. and cattle dealer, Rackham
         Rackham     William            parish clerk
         Searle      Samuel             grocer and draper
         Ward        Francis            victualler, The Nags
         Watling     Thomas             wheelwright
         Westgate    Samuel             farmer
         Wilson      Rev. Herbert, M.A. The Rectory
         Wright      William            farmer

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