Norfolk: Hunworth

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

HUNWORTH, in the vale of the Glaven, 2½ miles S.S.W. of Holt, has in its parish 234 souls, and 804 acres of land, belonging to the Dowager Lady Suffield, the lady of the manor, and patroness of the Church (St. Lawrence,) which is a rectory, valued in the King's Book at £4, and consolidated with Stody, in the incumbency of the Rev. J. W. Flavell, who has here 6A. of glebe, and a yearly rent of £152. 10s., awarded in 1841, in lieu of tithes.

Here is a Primitive Methodist Chapel.

For schooling poor children of Hunworth and Stody, Wm. Symonds, in 1688, left a yearly rent-charge of £6.

Directory:-

         Curtis         David        baker
         Funnell        Edward       shoemaker
         Funnell        Martha       schoolmistress
         Funnell        Richard W.   shopkeeper
         Peck           Thomas       smith and wheelwright
         Rudd           Wm.          brewer and maltster
         Spencer        James        saddler and tanner
         Welton         John         vict., Bell
         Welton         Howard       gamekeeper
 
            farmers.
 
         Bassingthwaite Jas. and Wm.
         Bidwell        Samuel
         Burton         Jas.
         Moore          Jas.
 

See also the Hunworth parish page.

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January 2001