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William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1845
[Transcription copyright © Pat Newby]WEYBOURN, or Wayborne, 4 miles N.E. of Holt, is a small village picturesquely seated on the sea-coast, and sheltered on the other sides by a semicircular range of towering hills. Its parish has 311 souls, and 1459A. of land, exclusive of beach and wastes. It has a large brewery, a fish-curing house, and several fishing-boats. Of the whole Norfolk coast, this is the point most open to the enemy. At a point called Weybourn Hope, are traces of fortifications; and the sea is there so deep, that ships may lie against the shore.
The Earl of Orford is lord of the manor, owner of most of the soil, and patron of the Church (All Saints,) which was formerly much larger, being attached to the priory founded here in the reign of Henry II., for Augustine canons, and granted at the dissolution to Richard Heydon. The benefice is a donative, in the incumbency of the Rev. John Gunton, A.M., of Marsham. The parish is exempt from episcopal jurisdiction; and the tithes were commuted, in 1839, for £300 per annum. The Rev. Cremer Cremer is the officiating curate.
DIRECTORY:-
Bolding Mrs. Eliz. Jennis Bolding John, Esq. brewer and maltster Blogg Henry shoemaker Bunn Edw. blacksmith Copling Richard grocer and draper Dady Richd. wheelwright and fish curer Dawson John miller Lane Mrs. Frances Purdy Miss Mary Pilch John tailor and vict. Ship Rowland Wm. vict. Crown and Anchor farmers Craske John and Wm. Dady Dd. Dawson John Nurse John (owner) Pardon Robert Piggott Wm. Pilch Wm.
See also the Weybourne parish page.
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January 2009