GENUKI: Norfolk: Surlingham, Norfolk

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

SURLINGHAM, 5 miles E. by S. of Norwich, and 1 mile S. of Brundall railway station, is a pleasant village on the southern acclivities of the vale of the Yare. Its parish is in Henstead union and hundred, Swainsthorpe petty sessional division, Norwich county court district and bankruptcy district, Norwich polling district of South Norfolk, West Brooke rural deanery, and Norfolk archdeaconry. It had 486 inhabitants in 1881, and comprises 1767 acres of land; the rateable value is £2689.

The parish includes 100A. of broads and marshes, and lies chiefly in the manors of Surlingham and Surlingham Earlhams (fines arbitrary). C.E. Tuck, Esq., is lord of the former, and Robert Fellowes, Esq., of the latter; but a great part of the soil belongs to Robert Pratt, Esq., Sir Charles Rich, Bart., Geo. Thos. Cock, Esq., Samuel Barnes, Esq., and a few smaller proprietors. Hill House, the seat of Robert Pratt, Esq., is a pretty white brick residence, which has been recently enlarged and beautified.

Here were formerly two CHURCHES, St. Mary's and St. Saviour's, but the latter was dilapidated several centuries ago, and only a small part of the walls remain, mantled with ivy and forming picturesque ruins. The former is a small plain structure, consisting of nave, chancel, north aisle and tower. The latter contains four bells, and is round at the base and octagonal above. The porch was built in 1859, at a cost of £60. Here is a fine brass to Master John of Alnwick, dated 1460.

The vicarage of St. Mary's and the curacy of St. Saviour's are consolidated, and valued in the King's Book at £6 13s. 4d. The Bishop of Norwich is patron, and the Rev. John Scott, M.A., is the vicar, and has a very poor residence, built 1862 by the present vicar, and a yearly tithe rent-charge of £111, awarded in 1845, when the great tithes were also commuted for £309 per annum. The latter, with the glebe (36A.) belong to the Executors of the late Rev. Wm. Collett.

The School Board now consists of Robert Pratt, Esq., chairman, Samuel Barnes, Esq., Albert Weymouth, Esq., Mr. James Chapman, and Mr. Walter Nash. Mr. Herbert Cole, of Norwich, is clerk to the board. The National School, which was built in 1837, was transferred to the Board in 1875, who enlarged it at a cost of £50 so as to hold 88 children; the average attendance is 75.

The Wesleyans meet in a room belonging to R. Pratt, Esq.

The Church Land, given by John Alnwick, in 1640, was exchanged at the enclosure in 1822, for 37A. 35P., let for £57. The Fuel Allotment, awarded at the enclosure, is 23A. 2R. 27P., of which 17A. are let for about £16, and the rest is a morass, let for cutting sedges, and fishing.

POST OFFICE at Mr. Richard N. Osborne's. Letters arrive at 8.30 a.m., despatched at 3.55 p.m. viâ Norwich. Blofield is the nearest Money Order and Telegraph Office.

         Aldis     Leonard             carrier
         Barker    Miss Hannah         schoolmistress
         Barnes    Samuel              farmer & brickmaker,
                                         Manor house and Yarmouth
         Bracey    Charles             market gardener
         Browne    Edward              corn merchant, fishing boat and ferry
                                         proprietor, & vict. Coldham hall
         Chapman   Henry Frederick     farmer, ferry proprietor,, and vict.
                                         Ferry house, Surlingham ferry
         Chapman   James               farmer, coal mert. and road surveyor
         Cheney    David               butcher & shopkeeper
         Drane     Walter              farmer
         Fisk      Henry               farmer
         Fisk      James               market gardener
         Gibbs     Samuel              (G. & Reynolds), Coldham hall
         Gibbs &                       wherry and yacht builders,
           Reynolds                      Coldham hall
         Goffin    Walter Arthur       clerk
         Harvey    William             shoemaker & parish clerk
         Hayes     Samuel              farmer
         Lynes     Miss Mary Browne    seminary
         Mills     Mr Frederick,
                     M.R.C.S.
         Moore     William             farmer
         Nash      Walter              corn miller
         Nobbs     Mrs Eliza           farmer, Glebe farm
         Osborne   Richard Noah        blacksmith, shopkeeper, and
                                         sub-postmaster
         Parker    Walter              farmer
         Pratt     Robert, Esq.        Hill house
         Purdy     Richard             joiner, wheelwright and vict.
                                         Brickmaker's arms
         Reynolds  Arthur              (Gibbs & R.) Coldham hall
         Reynolds  William             shoemaker
         Rich      James               farmer
         Rudd      Misses Emily
                     and Mary
         Rust      Mr William Taylor   Walton cot.
         Scott     Rev John, M.A.      vicar
         Smith     Randell             farmer
         Spanton   Francis Humphrey    farmers and hay and straw
                     & Alfred Francis    dealers, Hill farm
         Weymouth  Mr Albert Williams  Lessingham house

CARRIER - Leonard Aldis, to Norwich on Wed. and Sat.

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