Norfolk: Holme-next-the-Sea

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

HOLME-NEXT-THE-SEA is a parish and small village, betwixt Hunstanton and Brancaster Bay, 9 miles W. of Burnham-Market, containing 280 inhabitants, and 1,197 acres of land, lying in several manors, viz:- Hunstanton-with-Mustrells, Ringstead-with-Holme, and Northwall, otherwise Barnards, of which Hy. L'Estrange Styleman Le Strange, Esq., is lord; and Holkham, Berry's, and Hoods, of which the Rev. Chas. Palmer is lord, and has a neat mansion here; as also has Mr. Matthew Thurlow Nelson.

The CHURCH (Virgin Mary,) has a large square tower, built by Henry Notynham, an itinerant judge, in the reign of Henry IV. It has been much larger, the nave being rebuilt on a smaller scale, in 1778. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the King's Book at £6 13s. 4d., and consolidated with that of Thornham. It has about 22 acres of glebe, and was augmented, in 1762, with £200 of Queen Anne's Bounty. The Rev. Chas. Sutton, D.D., has been incumbent since 1794, and the Bishop of Norwich is the patron. The joint vicarages were valued in 1831 at £428 per annum.

Hy. L. S. Le Strange, Esq., is impropriator of the great tithes. The tithes of Holme were commuted in 1844, for the yearly payment of £283, to the impropriator, and £170 to the vicar.

In Dec., 1626, a large whale was cast ashore here, and the profit made of it was £217.

The Poor's Allotment, 11A. 2R. 35P., let for £18, was awarded at the enclosure, in 1827, in lieu of the old poor's land, part of which was purchased with £20 left by Benjamin Holley, in 1699.

         Bloomfield Robert         beerhouse kpr.
         Blyth      Anty.          solr., (& Burnham Mkt.)
         Bond       Thomas         baker & beer seller
         Green      George         parish clerk
         Green      Thomas         wheelwright
         Morgan     John           carpenter
         Nelson     Miss Dorothy
         Raven      Rev. Nicholas  curate
                      John, M.A.
         Wales      Hy.            shoemaker & shopkeeper
 
            FARMERS.
 
         Bloomfield Chas.
         Green      John
         Nelson     Matthew Thurlow
         Seapey     William
         Whymonsole J.
         Wright     Thomas
 

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August 1999