GENUKI: Norfolk: Quidenham, Norfolk

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

QUIDENHAM, a small village and parish, in the vale of a rivulet, 2 miles E. by N. of East Harling, in Guiltcross hundred and union, Attleborough county court district, Norwich bankruptcy district, Guiltcross and Shropham petty sessional division, Harling polling district of South Norfolk, Rockland rural deanery, and Norfolk archdeaconry. It had 117 inhabitants in 1881, living on 1126 acres, and has a rateable value of £1337 5s.

The soil belongs to the Right Hon. George Thomas Kepple [sic], sixth Earl of Albemarle, who resides at the Hall, a large and handsome mansion, chiefly of brick, seated in an extensive and well-wooded park. One front has a Doric portico, and the other a centre with four Ionic columns, supporting an entablature and pediment, with corresponding pilasters.

It was long the seat of the Holland family, whose heiress sold it to Mr. Bristow, of whom it was purchased with the manor in 1762, by George, the third Earl of Albemarle of the Keppel family, the title being revived in 1696, in the person of Arnold Joost Von Keppel, together with those of Baron Ashford, in Kent, and Viscount Bury, in Lancashire. He came from Holland with William III.

The present Earl was born in 1799, and succeeded his brother in 1851. He entered the army in 1815, served at Waterloo, became Major-General in 1858, and is author of several literary works. His son and heir, the Right Hon. William Coutts Keppel, Viscount Bury, was born in 1832, and served for some years in the army. He was M.P. for Norwich from 1857 to 1859, and in the latter year was created a privy councillor, and in 1876 was called to the House of Peers in his father's barony of Ashford.

The CHURCH (St. Andrew) comprises nave, aisles, chancel, and tower. The latter is round at the base and octagonal above. It contains a clock and chimes, and is surmounted by a shingle spire. On the south side of the nave is a beautiful Norman doorway, and in the chancel is a mural monument to Sir John Holland, who died in 1700. The church was repaired and furnished with neat open benches in 1860.

The earl is patron of the rectory, valued in the King's Book at £8 4s. 6d., and now at £680, with that of Snetterton annexed, in the incumbency of the Hon. and Rev. Edward Southwell Keppel, M.A., who is also a rural dean, and an honorary canon of Norwich, and occupies the rectory house, a neat mansion of white brick.

The school was erected in 1865.

POST LETTERS arrive at 8 a.m., despatched at 6 p.m., viâ Attleborough. Kenninghall is the nearest Money Order Office; East Harling is the nearest Telegraph Office.

         Albemarle  the Earl of, D.L.          The Hall
         Allen      George                     parish clerk
         Blofield   Peter Kersey               farmer, The Hall farm
         Burrell    Miss Ellen Ann             schlmistress
         Bury       The Right Hon. Viscount    The Hall; and London
         Hazlewood  Simeon                     blacksmith
         Keppel     The Hon. and Rev. Edward
                      Southwell, M.A., J.P.    The Rectory
         Woodcock   Rev. James Thomas, B.A.    curate; h Snetterton

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