GENUKI: Norfolk: Wilby, Norfolk

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Kelly's Directory of Norfolk 1933

WILBY is a parish and village, 1 mile east from Eccles Road station on the Thetford and Norwich section of the London and North Eastern railway and 4 south from Attleborough, in the Southern division of the county, Guiltcross and Shropham petty sessional division, Wayland rural district, Shropham hundred, Wymondham county court district, rural deanery of Rockland, archdeaconry of Norfolk and diocese of Norwich.

The church of All Saints is an ancient building of flint, chiefly in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 5 bells: the chancel and nave were entirely restored in 1902 at a cost of over £700: there are 120 sittings. The register dates from the year 1541. The living is a rectory, with that of Hargham annexed, joint gross yearly value £396, including 30 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Mrs. J.H. Beevor, and held since 1922 by the Rev. John Twells Poole M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge.

Here is a Methodist chapel, erected in 1851.

Wilby Hall, an old Jacobean house, and the property of Sir Hugh Reeve Beevor bart. M.D. is occupied as a farm house. The exors. of Lionel George Robinson esq. J.P. are lords of the manor. Sir Hugh Reeve Beevor bart. M.D. and Messrs. E. Everard Gates, W.J. Hanton and George Howlett are the chief landowners. The soil is mixed; subsoil, various. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and roots. The area of the parish is 1,421 acres; the population in 1921 was 83 in the civil and 143 in the ecclesiastical parish.

Post & Tel. Call Office. Letters through Norwich. Quidenham nearest Money Order and Telegraph office

PRIVATE RESIDENT.

           Poole   Rev. John Twells M.A. (rector), Rectory

COMMERCIAL.
Marked thus * farm 150 acres or over.

         * Hanton  William James         farmer, Wilby house. T N Quidenham 14
         * Howlett George Charles        farmer, Red House farm
         * Kent    Arth. Rt.             farmer, Wilby hall

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