GENUKI: Norfolk: Seething, Norfolk

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

SEETHING, a well-built village, 9½ miles S.E. of Norwich, has in its parish 392 inhabitants, and 1630 acres of land, mostly belonging to Viscount Canterbury, of Brooke. It is in Loddon and Clavering union and petty sessional division, Beccles county court district, Yarmouth bankruptcy district, Loddon hundred, Loddon polling district of South Norfolk, East Brooke rural deanery, and Norfolk archdeaconry. The rateable value is £2906, and the gross rental £3171.

The CHURCH (St. Margaret) comprises nave, chancel, south porch, and round tower with three bells. The nave is thatched, and the chancel slated. The east window was filled with stained glass in 1861, at the expense of the late vicar, and contains figures of three of the Apostles. The base-panels of the chancel-screen were once richly gilt. The font is octagonal, and bears carvings of the seven sacraments and the baptism of our Lord. In the chancel is a piscina. The church was restored and reseated in 1861.

The living is a perpetual curacy, now in the incumbency of the Rev. Charles H. Hicks. The trustees of the Great Hospital, Norwich, are the patrons, and also impropriators of the great tithes, which were commuted in 1839 for £383, of which £125 a year go to the incumbent.

Near the old hall is a white brick pedestal, surmounted by a crocketed pinnacle and cross, and said to stand on the site of a chapel destroyed by the Danes in A.D. 584. In 1848 several human skulls and bones were dug up near it.

Here is a Voluntary School, with ample accommodation for the children of both the parishes of Seething and Mundham.

The Fuel Allotment is 2A. 1R. 18P., awarded at the enclosure in 1814, when the old Poor's Land was exchanged for 3R. 26P., and the rents, amounting to £10 10s. per annum, are given in money, coal, and bread to the poor, who have also three yearly rent-charges, viz.:- £3, left by Thomas Brooke in 1674; £1 10s., left by Thomas Spooner in 1630; and 20s., left by John Kerrison in 1753.

POST from Norwich, viâ Brooke.

         Balls      Fisher          butcher
         Barrow     Misses Julia
                      & Mary
         Beverley   Mrs Mary Ann    The Grove
         Briggs     John            cucumber grower
         Canterbury Dowager
                      Viscountess   Old hall
         Clarke     John            blacksmith
         Clarke     Jph.            parish clerk and sexton
         Cossey     George          machine owner
         Crickmer   William         farmer and valuer, Manor farm
         Dodd       Robt. Phillips  frmr. & cattle dlr
         Drake      Jno.            carrier & cucumber grower
         Drake      John, sen.      farmer & fruit dlr
         England    Charles         market gardener
         Fairhead   Richd.          frmr. & vermin killer
         Garrard    Jesse           vict. Garden House Inn; and fruit dealer
         Grimmer    Miss Ellen
         Hicks      Rev. Chas.      vicar of Mundham-with-Seething,
                      Hocking         The Vicarage
         Laurance   John            shopkeeper
         Loynes     Last            grocer, drpr. & postmastr
         Reynolds   Richd. C.       frmr. Church farm
         Sabberton  Miss Jessie     schoolmistress
         Sutton     Hon. Mabel
                      Manners       Old hall
         Thompson   Miss Hannah M.  Old hall
         Tibbenham  Uriah
                      Chamberlain   farmer and surveyor, Seething house
         Tidnam     William         wheelwright, carpenter, and shopkeeper
         Trower     Charles         shoemaker
         Winter     John            farmer

CARRIER to Norwich, John Drake, jun., Wed. and Sat.

From ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS on pages 13-16:

in Directory,: take out 'Barrow Misses,' and insert 'Barber Robert, market gardener;'
omit 'Clarke Joseph;'
for 'Crickmer,' read 'Crickmore;'
for 'Grimmer' read 'Grimer;'
for 'Trower,' read 'Thrower.'

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