GENUKI: Norfolk: Skeyton, Norfolk

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

SKEYTON, 3½ miles E. by S. of Aylsham, and 11 miles N. of Norwich, is a parish in Aylsham union and county court district, Norwich bankruptcy district, South Erpingham hundred and petty sessional division, Aylsham polling district of North Norfolk, Ingworth rural deanery, and Norwich archdeaconry. It has a rateable value of £1944, and had 313 inhabitants in 1881, living on 1264 acres. The surface of the parish rises in bold swells from a meandering rivulet.

The soil belongs to the Rev. Francis Jex Blake, Laverocke Leggett, and Henry Bidewell, Esqrs., the trustees of the late Edmund Burr, Esq., the trustees of the late John Moore, Esq., and some smaller owners; but part of the parish is in the manor of Whitwell Hall, which belongs to L. Leggett, Esq., and is occupied by Mr. J. Wortley.

The CHURCH (All Saints) stands on a bold eminence, and was repewed about 1850, 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 in the patronage of Sir H.J. Stracey, Bart., M.P. The present rector is the Rev. Robert Edward Gaye, M.A. The tithes of Skeyton were commuted in 1840 for £343 per annum, besides £15 paid yearly to the rector of Swanton-Abbott, and 9½ acres of glebe. The Parsonage, a pleasant residence, erected in 1857, is occupied by the rector.

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

The SCHOOL, which is used jointly by the parishes of Skeyton and Tuttington, is a good brick building (with teacher's house attached), erected in 1856, but since enlarged.

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, &c., are extensively manufactured. The Church Register dates from 1706.

POST from Norwich viâ Swanton-Abbott. The nearest Railway Stations are Buxton-Lammas (3½ miles) and Felmingham (2 miles). Nearest Money Order and Telegraph Office at Buxton-Lammas.

         Beck      Isaac         farmer
         Bird      Hy.           parish clerk; h Tuttington
         Bugden    John          farmer
         Cooper    William       blacksmith
         Gaye      Rev. Robert
                     Edwd. M.A.  rector
         Gooch     Frederick     farmer
         Harmer    John Daniel   schoolmaster
         Hylton    Frederick     farmer
         Kett      John          horse dealer
         Moy       James         farmer
         Page      William       farmer
         Pilgrim   James         bootmaker
         Pitcher   George        shopkeeper
         Pooley    Cook          pig dealer
         Pooley    Francis       shopkeeper
         Pooley    Mr. Robert
         Postle    John          farmer, Skeyton lodge
         Roofe     William       farmer
         Spinks    John          vict. Goat
         Slaughter Isaac         brick, tile & pottery manufacturer
         Watson    William       vict. Black Horse
         Wortley   John          farmer, Whitwell hall

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