GENUKI: Norfolk: Ovington, Norfolk

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

OVINGTON, 1½ mile N.E. of Watton, is in Wayland union, petty sessional division, and hundred, Attleborough county court district, Norwich bankruptcy district, Watton polling district of West Norfolk, Breccles rural deanery, and Norwich archdeaconry. It had 277 inhabitants in 1881, living on 1497 acres, and has a rateable value of £2644. The University of Cambridge owns part of the parish, and the manor of Ovington Bozomes, and Sir Charles Harvey, Bart., is lord of the manor of Woodhouse. The other chief owners are King's College, Cambridge, and the trustees of the late George Hargreaves, Esq.

The CHURCH (St. John the Evangelist) is a small building, mostly in the Decorated style, having a square tower and a fine Norman doorway. It was repaired and reseated in 1867, at a cost of about £400.

The rectory, valued in the King's Book at £7 3s. 6½d., has a yearly rent-charge of £415, awarded in 1843 in lieu of tithes, and 22 acres of glebe. It is in the gift of the University of Cambridge, the members of the Senate electing the rector by tendering their votes in person. The Rev. A.T. Crisford is incumbent. Here is a parsonage house.

A new school, capable of accommodating 60 scholars, was erected in 1870; average attendance 44 scholars. The Primitive Methodists have a chapel here, erected in 1859. The Fuel Allotment, 22A. 1R. 33P., is let with four cottages and farm buildings for £56 8s. per annum. There are traces of a Roman encampment in Saham Wood, on the borders of this parish and Saham.

POST from Watton, which is the nearest Money Order Office. Wall Box cleared at 6.40 p.m.; Sundays at 12 a.m.

         Allen      Jacob          miller
         Barker     Joseph         farmer
         Crisford   Rev. A.T.      rector, the Rectory
         Denny      George Wright  farmer
         Green      Jonathan       farmer
         Grigs      Thomas         yeoman
         Jenney     Mrs Frances    schoolmistress
         Jenney     Wm.            thrashing machine owner
         Middleton  Alfred         vict. Cock Inn; and shopkeeper
         Petitt     Arthur Henry   farmer
         Stubbings  William        farmer
         Thurston   Henry          farmer and landowner, Wood farm
         Tilney     John           gardener & parish clerk
         Warman     John           farmer and landowner
         Warren     Jeffery        beerhouse, farmer, and wheelwright

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