Norfolk: South Runcton

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

RUNCTON (SOUTH) parish, 4 miles N. by E. of Downham, has only 144 souls, and 800 acres of land, mostly belonging, with the manor, to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridgeshire, by gift of Dr. Caius.

The CHURCH, (St. Andrew,) is a small Saxon fabric, which, after being long a roofless ruin, was repaired in 1836, at the cost of about £300. The rectory, valued in the King's Book at £12, is consolidated with those of Holme and Wallington. (See page 620 [which is the entry for Runcton Holme].)

The National School was built in 1839. The poor have the site of a tenement, let for 15s., and a yearly rent charge of £2, left by Thos. Taylor.

Directory:-

         Bagnall   Charles     shopkeeper
         Gullridge Thomas      beer seller
         Stevens   Thos.       schoolmaster
         Saxton    Thos.       shoemaker
 
            farmers
 
         Cambridge Fredk. and
                     William
         Platt     Charles
 

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See also the South Runcton parish page.

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January 2003

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