GENUKI: Norfolk: Swannington, Norfolk

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William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1845

SWANNINGTON, a parish and scattered village, 3½ miles S.S.E. of Reepham, and 9 miles N.W. by W. of Norwich, has 358 inhabitants, and 1281 acres of land, exclusive of 100A. of common. J.C.B. Ogilvie, Esq., of London, owns a great part of the soil, and is lord of the manor, (fine arbitrary.) The Lawn, a neat mansion, with some beautiful stained glass in its windows, is the seat of E. Bartell, Esq..

The Church, (St. Margaret,) is a rectory, valued in the King's Book at £6. 5s. 11d., and consolidated with the vicarage of Wood Dalling, in the patronage of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and incumbency of the Rev. Fredk. Hildyard, M.A., who has here a neat residence; 13A. of glebe, and a yearly rent of £408, awarded in 1841, in lieu of tithes.

The Poor's Land, left by John Carter, in 1641, is 6A., let for £7. 16s. Stphn. Sheering, in 1643, left a yearly rent-charge of £5, for the poor of Swannington, out of the King's Head and Boar's Head, in Bucklersbury, London.

          Artis     Thomas           tailor
          Bartell   Edmund, Esq.     The Lawn
          Bell      Geo.             shopkr.
          Chapman   Philip           grocer, &c.
          Chubbock  Thos.            vict. Black Horse
          Hildyard  Rev Fredk. M.A.  Rectory
          Means     Mrs My.
          Norman    John             joiner and builder
          Ottway    Robert           blacksmith
          Rouse     John             joiner, &c.
          Smith     Benjamin         shoemaker
          Spark     Wm. & Danl.      wheelwrights
          Spinks    Wm.              butcher
 
             FARMERS,
         (* are Owners)
 
         *Cooke     Thos. Esq.
          Crowe     Thos. Bird       Hall
          Green     Stephen
         *Lowe      Samuel
          Pye       Wm.

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