Norfolk: Seething

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

[Transcription copyright © Mike Bristow]

SEETHING, a well built village, 9½ miles S. E. of Norwich, has in its parish 449 souls, and 1571 acres of land, mostly belonging to G. S. Kett, Esq., of Brooke.

Seething Hall, the seat of Mrs. H. Kett, is a large mansion with a beautiful lawn, descending to a picturesque valley, in which a rivulet is swelled into lakes and decoys, finely margined with wood. The blue sash, worn by Penn, at the treaty of Pennsylvannia, is in the possession of Mrs. Kett.

The CHURCH (St. Margaret,) has a round tower, and the living is a perpetual curacy, valued in 1831 at £143, and now enjoyed by the Rev. J. T. Burt, M.A. The Trustees of the Great Hospital, Norwich are the patrons, and also impropriators of the great tithes, commuted for £383 per annum, in 1839.

Here is a National School, established in 1813. The Fuel Allotment is 2A. 1R. 18P., awarded at the enclosure in 1814, when the old Poor's Land was exchanged for 3R. 26P. The poor have also three yearly rent-charges, viz :-£3 left by Thos. Brooke, in 1674; £1 10s. left by Thos. Spooner, in 1630; and 20s. left by John Kerrison, in 1753.

DIRECTORY:-

 Burt        Rev.John T.,M.A. incmbt
 Clarke      John             vict., Cherry Tree
 Duffield    Rt.              blacksmith
 Kett        Mrs. Hannah      Seething Hall
 Rushmore    Henry            wheelwright
 Spalding    Cphr.            grocer
 Tate        Robt.            grocer
 
 

farmers

 Branch      Edw.             (Grove)
 Bridges     Geo.
 Crickmore   Robt.
 Crickmore   Wm.
 Grimmer     Robert
 Mann        Edm.
 Mann        John
 Roberts     Henry
 

See also the Seething parish page.

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May 1999