GENUKI: Norfolk: Neatishead, Norfolk

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

NEATISHEAD, 10 miles N.E. of Norwich, is a large village and parish in Smallburgh union, Tunstead hundred, Happing and Tunstead petty sessional division, North Walsham county court district, Norwich bankruptcy district, Coltishall polling district of North Norfolk, Tunstead-Waxham rural deanery, and Norfolk archdeaconry. It had 578 inhabitants in 1881, has a rateable value of £3670, and comprises about 1905 acres of land.

The manor was given by Canute, the Dane, to his Abbey of St. Bennet's at Holm, so that the Bishop of Norwich is now patron of the living, appropriator of the great tithes, and lord of the manor; but a great part of the soil belongs to his lessee, Sir J.H. Preston, Bart., and to F. Neve, Esq., Mrs. Dix, Messrs. Charles Cubitt, Richard Allen, and some smaller proprietors.

The CHURCH (St. Peter), which is a small edifice with a belfry, was the chancel of the original bulding, which had a lofty tower and spire of the age of Edward IV. A new gallery was erected by subscription in 1840. Over the present west door are some remains of rich tabernacle work, which is supposed to have been over the west porch.

The vicarage, valued in the King's Book at £3 13s. 1½d., and now at £305, has 46 acres of glebe, and is in the incumbency of the Rev. Henry Browne, M.A., who has a neat brick residence built in 1862. The tithes were commuted in 1841, for the yearly payment of £301 to the appropriator, and £175 to the vicar.

The Baptists have a chapel here, built in 1811 and enlarged in 1857. It has a burial-ground attached, and is under the ministry of the Rev. F. Harvey. The PRIMITIVE METHODIST Chapel was built in 1868, at a cost of £240, and has 130 sittings.

There is a National School. The poor have eight cottages and gardens and 3A. 21P. of land, left by widow King and others; and 50A. 39P. allotted at the enclosure in 1808. The rents, amounting to £50 per annum, are distributed in coals. There is a friendly society at the Church school room, with 217 members.

POST, and MONEY ORDER OFFICE and SAVINGS BANK at Mr. Josiah Hy. Cooke's. Letters viâ Norwich are received at 5.30 a.m., and despatched at 4.50 p.m.

         Adcock    Hy.              farmer & overseer, Ivy fm
         Baldwin   John             bricklayer
         Benstead  Miss Mary Ann    schlmstrs
         Boast     James            shoemaker
         Bowles    Mrs Elizabeth    shopkeeper
         Bowman    Benjamin         brickmaker
         Browne    Rev. Henry, M.A. vicar, The Vicarage
         Burton    James            shopkeeper
         Chandler  Geo.             wheelwright & carpntr
         Cooke     Josiah Hy.       grcr. draper, leather cutter, agent
                                      for the London and Guarantee
                                      Accident Insurance Co., and
                                      postmaster
         Cubitt    Benjamin         farmer and Irstead
         Cubitt    Chas.            farmer and owner, and surveyor,
                                      Holly grove
         Cubitt    Mrs Mary         Point house
         Daniels   Geo.             farmer & veterinary srgn
         Dye       James            shopkeeper
         Fox       John             parish clerk
         Gibbs     Richard          grocer and draper
         Green     Thomas           farmer
         Harvey    Rev. F.          (Baptist)
         Haylock   Hy.              vict. White Horse Inn
         Geary     William          tailor
         Jones     Alfred           cucumber grower
         Knights   Thomas           miller
         Lubbock   John             rush collar maker
         Meek      William          shoemaker
         Mertar    William          rush collar maker
         Neave     Fredk.           farmer and owner, road surveyor,
                                      The Hall
         Neave     Mr Jacob
         Nobbin    John             wheelwright
         Scarling  James            rush collar maker
         Slater    Fras. John       blacksmith
         Slaughter John             blacksmith
         Walker    Charles          saddler
         Ward      William          beerhouse

From ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS on pages 13-16:

The Rev. F. Harvey has left.

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