Norfolk: Hales

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

HALES is a dispersed village, skirting a green of 66A., from 2 to 3 miles S.S.E. of Loddon. Its parish has 302 souls, and 980 acres of land, in the manors of Hales Hall and Loddon Hall. The Earl of Rosebery is lord of the former, and D. Palmer, Esq., of the latter; but a great part of the soil belongs to Sir E. Bacon, and Messrs. A. Freston and E. Easter. It was anciently a seat of the Hales family, who had a chapel at the hall, dedicated to St. Andrew.

The Church (St. Margaret,) is a small fabric, with a round tower, and the living is a perpetual curacy, valued, in 1831, at only £32, and now enjoyed by the Rev. W.W. Hobson, M.A. Sir E.B. Smyth, Bart., is the patron, and also impropriator of the tithes, which have been commuted for £204 per annum.

Directory:-

         Chamberlin Wm.           tailor
         Fisher     Robert        blacksmith
         Plow       John          wheelwright
         Preston    Benj.         gardener and vict., Garden House
         Shardalow  John          corn miller
         Wooltorton J.H.          relieving officer
 
            shopkeepers              yeomen
 
         Beckett    John          Easter     Edward
         Easter     Mary Ann      Freston    Anthony
 
                           farmers
 
         Beazer     Noah          Spurgeon   Wm.
         Hammond    Thomas        Tibbenham  Thomas
         Preston    James
 

See also the Hales parish page.

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