GENUKI: Norfolk: Fundenhall, Norfolk

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

FUNDENHALL, 4½ miles S.S.E. of Wymondham, and 9 miles S.S.W. of Norwich, has its parish in Depwade union, Wymondham county court district, Norwich bankruptcy district, Depwade petty sessional division, Stratton polling district of South Norfolk, Depwade hundred, Depwade rural deanery, and Norfolk archdeaconry. It had 318 inhabitants in 1881, living on 1347 acres, and has a rateable value of £2047.

The chief landowners are Baroness Berners, George Duckett Berney, Esq., Sir F.G.M. Boileau, Bart., Wm. Howes, Esq., and the Rev. Gerard Barton. Baroness Berners is lady of the manor. William Howes, Esq., is lord of the rectory manor, and his farm suffered damage to the amount of £1470, in the great storm of hail and wind, on August 9, 1843. Many other farms in this neighbourhood suffered severely at the same time.

The CHURCH (St.Nicholas) is an ancient fabric, comprising nave, chancel, porch and tower with five bells. The tower stands at the junction of the nave and chancel, and is of the Norman period, as also is the porch. The church was restored in 1869, when a new oak pulpit on a stone base was given by the present minister in memory of his deceased wife, and has a Latin inscription upon it. The rood loft still remains, and is handsomely carved and painted, and bears a Latin inscription. The font has figures of angels bearing shields, upon the shaft; and in the chancel is a good piscina.

G.D. Berney, Esq., is patron of the living, which is a donative, worth only about £51 a year, and now held by the Rev. Thomas Sedger, M.A. The tithes were commuted, in 1840, for £506 per annum.

The School was built in 1856 by William Howes, Esq., and is attended by 50 children.

The fuel allotment, 5A., awarded at the enclosure in 1814, is let for £7 10s.

POST OFFICE at Thomas Chapman's. Letters delivered at 9 am., and despatched at 5.55 p.m., viâ Wymondham, which is the nearest Money Order and Telegraph Office.

         Anderson  Miss             schoolmistress
         Attoe     George           farmer
         Bailey    William Norman   shopkeeper
         Barton    Rev. Gerard      The Grange
         Browne    Mr Edward
         Bunting   William, sen.    farmer
         Bunting   William, jun.    corn miller
         Chapman   Thomas           farmer, shopkeeper, and postmaster
         Howes     Mr William       farmer & owner, Black Hall
         Myhill    Wm.              farmer, the Grange farm
         Rattee    Mrs Elizabeth    farmer and owner
         Ringwood  James            farmer
         Sewell    Stephen          farmer
         Tye       Mrs Sarah        farmer

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