GENUKI: Norfolk: Nordelph, Norfolk

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Kelly's Directory of Norfolk 1912

NORDELPH (or Northdelph) is an ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1909 from the parishes of Upwell, Downham, Denver, Stowe and Outwell; it is 4 miles west from Downham and about the same distance from Upwell. The village is intersected by the Well creek, over which there is an iron bridge and is in the South Western division of the county, Clackclose petty sessional division, Wisbech union and county court district, rural deanery of Fincham (western division), archdeaconry of Lynn and diocese of Norwich.

Holy Trinity church, erected by the Rev. William Gale Townley M.A. in 1865, as a chapel of ease to the parish church of Upwell, is an edifice of brick, consisting of chancel, nave, vestry, south porch and a turret, containing one bell: the east window is stained: there are 250 sittings. The register dates from the year 1865. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £350, with residence, in the gift of the Rev. Charles Francis Townley M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, and held since 1909 by the Rev. Edwin Emmanuel Bradford B.D. of Exeter College, Oxford.

There are Wesleyan, Methodist and United Methodist chapels.

Post, M.O. & T. Office. - Miss Rose Chapman, sub-mistress. Letters through Downham, arrive at 7.25 a.m.; dispatched at 6 p.m.; no sunday delivery

Public Elementary School (mixed), erected 1879, for 109 children; enlarged in 1909, for 165 children; average attendance, 130; George Henry Harms, master

         Bradford Rev. Edwin
                    Emmanuel B.D.  (vicar), Vicarage
 
            COMMERCIAL.
 
         Bailey   Richard Flour    farmer
         Burgess  Walter           farm bailiff to Arth. H. Worth esq
         Butler   Horace           blacksmith
         Chapman  Mary, Rose &
                    Emma (Misses)  grocers, Post office
         Chapman  Adam             farmer
         Chapman  John Oliver      baker
         Chapman  Mark             butcher
         Dack     Philip           beer retailer
         Ewell    George           grocer
         Flint    George           farmer
         Foreman  James            fruit grower
         Fretwell William          farmer
         Gilbert  John             boot repairer
         Grant    Read             farmer, Woodhouse farm
         Grounds  Agnes (Mrs.)     Chequers P.H.
         Hartley  William, jun.    farmer
         Johnson  Henry T.         beer retailer
         Markham  Thomas H.        wheelwright
         Martin   Fredk. Jas.      farmer, Old farm
         Newton   Charles          farmer, White house
         Proctor  Joseph William   farmer & breeder of shire & hackney
                                     horses & entire horse owner,
                                     East Stud fm
         Rose     Kenneth          farmer, West Nordelph farm
         Smith    Albert           farmer
         Thorpe   Albert           farmer
         Warner   Edwin Chas.      grocer, draper, & assistant overseer
         Whyatt   William          shopkeeper

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