Norfolk: Helhoughton

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

HELOUGHTON, a pleasant village, in a valley, 5 miles S.W. by W. of Fakenham, has in its parish 356 inhabitants, and 1,638 acres of land, mostly the property of Lord Chas. Vere Ferrars Townshend, the lord of the manor, impropriator of the great tithes, and patron of the vicarage, valued in the King's Book at £6 13s. 4d., and in 1831 at £258, with that of South Rainham annexed to it, in the incumbency of the Rev. Arthur Loftus, of Fincham.

The CHURCH (All Saints,) has a nave, chancel, and tower.

Chas. Wm. Hill, Esq., has a small estate here.

Lord Townshend pays £6 14s. 8d. per annum, alternately to the parishes of Heloughton and West Rainham, for apprenticing poor children, as left by Lady Mary Townshend, in 1662. The poor of Heloughton have £3 6s. 8d. a year, left by Lady Jane Berkeley, in 1617; and 20 acres of wet peaty land, allotted at the enclosure, in 1821, when 1A. 3R. was awarded to the church.

Directory:-

         Bond         Jno.       wheelwright
         Booth        Geo.       shopkeeper
         Branchflower Jno.       blacksmith
         Francis      Benj       farmer
         Gamnara      Eml.       vict., Buck
         Harper       Daniel     joiner
         Neal         Hy.        baker
         Newell       Thos.      farmer
         Parlett      Geo.       baker
         Scott        James      shopkeeper
         Stedman      Charles    farmer
         Stibbard     Sarah      spirit merchant
 

See also the Helhoughton parish page.

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