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Kelly's Directory of Norfolk 1933

[Transcription copyright © Pat Newby]

SHEREFORD (or Sheringford) is a parish on the river Wensum, about 2 miles west from Fakenham Town station, on the Midland and Great Northern joint railway and 3 west from Fakenham station, in the Wymondham and Wells section of the London and North Eastern railway, in the North Western division of the county, Gallow hundred and petty sessional division, Walsingham rural deanery and county court district, rural deanery of Brisley, archdeaconry of Lynn and diocese of Norwich.

The church of St. Nicholas is a plain building of flint, in the Norman and Early English styles, consisting of chancel, nave and a round western tower of early date, containing one bell: there ar 70 sittings. The register dates from the year 1721. The living is a rectory, consolidated with the vicarage of Toftrees by an Order in Council, dated November, 1881, joint net yearly value £368, with 92 acres of glebe, in the gift of the trustees of the Marquess Townshend, and held since 1910 by the Rev. Frederick Hawker Hughes M.A. of Jesus College, Oxford, who resides at Toftrees.

The trustees of the Marquess Townshend (who is a minor) are lords of the manor and sole landowners. The soil is various; subsoil, principally sand. The chief crops are wheat, barley and roots. The area is 867 acres; the population in 1921 was 112 in the civil and 194 in the ecclesiastical parish.

Letters through Fakenham, nearest Money Order & Telegraph office

Marked thus * farm 150 acres or over.

         * Case    Jas. Hy.        farmer, South Mill farm
         * Riches  Edward Goodwyn  farmer, Manor farm. T N Fakenham 40Y6 [sic]
 

See also the Shereford parish page.

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May 2016