GENUKI: Norfolk: Runcton Holme, Norfolk

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

HOLME-NEXT-RUNCTON is a small dispersed village, in the marshy grounds between the river Ouse and South Runcton, 4 miles N. of Downham. Its parish has 288 inhabitants, and 1,017A. of land, mostly the property of Sir W.J.H.B. Ffolkes, and the Execs. of the late Robt. Peel, Esq.; the latter of whom are lords of the manor, and patrons of the CHURCH, (St. James,) which is a small thatched fabric, and is a rectory, valued in the King's Book at £9 19s. 2d., and consolidated with South Runcton and Wallington. The church has recently been new roofed and repewed. The united rectories were valued in 1831 at £595 per annum, and are enjoyed by the Rev. Jno. Fras. Edwards. The Church Land, 1A. 12P., is let for £3.

A close of 2½A., let for £6, was left for poor widows, by Eliz. Hewitt, in 1705. The poor have the interest of £10, left by Thomas Towers, in 1728; and an annuity of £4, left by Thos. Taylor, out of land at South Runcton.

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         Edwards   Rev. John Fras., M.A. rector and rural dean
         Capp      John                  vict., Gate
 
            farmers
 
         Cambridge Wm. & Fdk.
         Heading   John
         Howell    Joseph
         Hudson    Robert

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