Norfolk: Waterden

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

WATERDEN parish, 5 miles S.S.E. of Burnham Market, is in Docking union, Walsingham county court district, Norwich bankruptcy court district, Smithdon and Brothercross petty sessional division, Brothercross hundred, Fakenham polling district of West Norfolk, Burnham rural deanery, and Norfolk archdeaconry. It had 44 inhabitants in 1881, living on 763 acres, and has a rateable value of £868. It is all in one farm, belonging to the Earl of Leicester, and occupied by Mr. Miles Hamond.

The CHURCH (All Saints) is a small edifice embowered in trees, and comprising nave, chancel, and north porch, with some remains of a tower. It formerly had a south aisle, and the arches which opened to it are now built up.

The rectory, valued in the King's Book at £5 6s. 8d., is annexed to that of Egmere, and has 23 acres of glebe, and a yearly tithe rent-charge of £194 10s. The Rev. Alexander Napier, M.A., vicar of Holkham, is the rector, for whom the Rev. A. Wilkes, B.A., of Bale, officiates. Here is also a good Elizabethan rectory-house of brick, built by the late Earl of Leicester, in 1850, at a cost of £700, but now occupied by labourers.

POST via Fakenham, Creak is the nearest Money Order Office.

Hamond Miles, farmer

See also the Waterden parish page.

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