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William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1864

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SKEYTON, 3 miles E. by S. of Aylsham, and 11 miles N. of Norwich, has in its parish 341 inhabitants, and 1264A. of fertile land, rising in bold swells from a meandering rivulet, and belonging to Laverocke Leggett, Henry Bidewell, W.L.J. Blake, and John Postle, Esqrs., and some smaller owners. Wm. Hy. Scott, Esq., is lord of the manor of Skeyton Hall, and impropriator of the great tithes; but part of the parish is in the manor of Whitwell Hall, which belongs to L. Leggett, Esq., and is occupied by Mrs. Carter.

The Church (All Saints) stands on a bold eminence, and was repewed about 14 years ago, when a new font was purchased. The rectory, valued in the King's Book at £9. 10s., and augmented with £200 of Queen Anne's Bounty in 1792, is now consolidated with Oxnead rectory and Buxton vicarage, in the incumbency of the Rev. Wm. J. Stracey, M.A., of Buxton, and patronage of Sir H.J. Stracey, Bart, M.P. The joint benefices are valued at £646 per annum, and the tithes of Skeyton were commuted in 1840 for £343 per annum, besides £15 paid yearly to the rector of Swanton-Abbott. The Parsonage, a pleasant residence, erected in 1857, is occupied by the curate.

The School, a good brick building with teacher's house attached, was built in 1856, and is supported by subscription.

The Wesleyans and the Wesleyan Reformers have each a chapel here.

Robert King, who died here in 1727, aged 103, had "an entire new set of teeth about ten years before his death." The commons were enclosed in 1814. Here is a good bed of clay, from which red and white bricks, chimney tops, &c., of excellent quality, are extensively manufactured.

POST from Norwich, via Swanton-Abbott.

           Bent      Rev. Robert Paul,
                       M.A.             curate
           Bird      Henry              parish clerk
           Buck      Miles              grocer and wheelwright
           Carter    Mrs My. Eliz. Ann  Whitwell Hall
           Colley    Mr Edmund Thomas
           Green     Emily              schoolmistress
           Hooker    James              boot and shoe maker
           Galley    Samuel             blacksmith
           Hunt and                     brick, tile, and chimney
            Slaughter                     top manufacturers
           Hunt      Lewis              wheelwright
           Parker    George             victualler, Black Horse
           Pilgrim   James              boot and shoe maker
           Spinks    John               butcher & victualler, Goat
 
                                FARMERS.
                            (* are Owners.)
 
         * Andrews   Robert             Rice     George
         * Beck      Isaac            * Roofe    William
         * Bugden    Henry            * Postle   John, Hall
         * Moore     Keziah             Otway    Robert
 

See also the Skeyton parish page.

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December 2015