Norfolk: Toftrees

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

TOFTREES, near Rainham Park, 2½ miles S.W. of Fakenham, has in its parish only 84 souls, and 1,166 acres of land, belonging to Lord Charles Townshend, the impropriator of the great tithes, and patron of the Church (All Saints,) which has a short tower, and is a vicarage, valued in the King's Book at £7 18s. 6d., and augmented in 1778, '86, and '88, with £600 of Queen Anne's Bounty, with which 25A. of land was purchased; besides which, here are 7A. of glebe. The vicarial tithes were commuted in 1839 for £155 per annum. The Rev. Thos. Bland is the incumbent. The parish is called Tofsas, or Toftes, in Domesday Book, and gives name to a deanery. (See p. 647 [which is the entry for Gallow Hundred].)

The farmers are Edward Bale, Geo Brett, Charles Case, and Wm. Wright.

See also the Toftrees parish page.

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