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William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1864

[Transcription copyright © Pat Newby]

MARLINGFORD parish, in the vale of the Yare, 6 miles W. of Norwich, has 224 inhabitants, and 617 acres of land, mostly the property of Thomas L'Estrange Ewen, Esq., the lord of the manor, and partly belonging to John Race, Esq.

The Church (Virgin Mary) is a very plain thatched fabric, with nave, chancel, south porch, and square tower with one bell. It has a Norman doorway and a piscina, and in the chancel are some tablets of the Greene family. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the King's Book at £7. 12s. 8d.; and was augmented in 1725-'6, with £200 of Queen Anne's Bounty, and £200 given by Rt. Fellowes, Esq. The tithes have been commuted for £162 per annum. Thos. Greene, Esq., is patron, and the Rev. John Nelson Cooper, B.A., is the incumbent, and has 32 acres of glebe and a good residence near the church.

The School, attended by 25 children, is a small building erected in 1842; but a new one is about to be built on a piece of land allotted at the enclosure in 1863.

The poor have the interest of £10, left by Mary Wright, in 1798.

POST OFFICE at Mary Waters's. Letters despatched via Norwich, at 4.30 p.m.

         Bailey    John               parish clerk
         Bowhill   Andrew             shopkeeper
         Brighty   Charles            blacksmith
         Cooper    Rev. John N., B.A. Rectory
         Gowing    John Dunham        corn miller
         Hipperson Jas.               bricklayer & vict. Bell
         Mace      John               travelling hawker
         Pestel    Miles              horse dealer
         Riches    Henry Bacon        farmer
         Riches    Robert             farmer, Hall
         Sayer     David              corn miller
 

See also the Marlingford parish page.

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November 2011