GENUKI: Norfolk: Roughton, Norfolk

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

ROUGHTON, 4 miles S. of Cromer, and 6½ miles N. by E. of Aylsham, in Erpingham union, North Erpingham hundred and petty sessional division, North Walsham county court district, Norwich bankruptcy district, Cromer polling district of North Norfolk, Repps rural deanery, and Norfolk archdeaconry. It had 439 inhabitants in 1881, living on 1740 acres, and has a rateable value of about £2000. The parish includes 371 acres of open heath, on which the parishioners cut fuel. Lord Suffield owns a great part of the soil, and is lord of the manor. A market is held every Wednesday at the New Inn for the sale of pigs, poultry, &c.

The CHURCH (St. Mary) is of Norman architecture, and comprises nave with aisles, north and south porches, chancel, and round embattled tower with three bells. It was restored, and reseated with open benches in 1864 at a cost of £800; a heating apparatus was put in at a cost of £90 in 1882.

The discharged vicarage, valued in the King's Book at £6, has 35 acres of glebe, and a yearly rent-charge of £293. The Bishop of Norwich is patron of the living, and the Rev. Robert Trousdale, B.A., is the incumbent, and resides in the rectory, built about 1870.

Here is a small Primitive Methodist chapel.

The Free School was founded by the Rev. Robert Brown in 1694, and has an endowment of £45 per annum. The trustees are Lord Suffield, the Bishop of Norwich, and the rector of Roughton. The School Lands comprise about 45 acres.

The poor parishioners have £11 a year from 7A. 1R. 4P. of land, purchased with £65 left by the Rev. Robert Brown in 1694, and two annuities of 40s. left by Mary Hogan and Marmaduke Tenant, out of land at Hanworth and Braughin (sic). The parish clerk has an acre of land, left by the before-named Rev. Robert Brown.

POST OFFICE at Mr. Edmund Skipper's. Letters, viâ Norwich, are received at 6.40 a.m., and depart at 4.20 p.m. on week days, and 4 p.m. on Sundays. Hanworth is the nearest Money Order Office.

         BISHOP    Misses         school teachers
         BRAND     John           market gardener
         CALLOW    Michael John   farmer; h North Repps
         CURSON    Elijah         farmer; h Sth. Repps
         DENNEY    Mrs Mary       frmr. Grove farm
         FOX       Robert         blacksmith
         HARVEY    Edward         miller and farmer
         HEWITT    James          shoemaker
         HEWITT    Robert         parish clerk
         KNIGHTS   Richard        shoemaker
         LARWOOD   Walter William carpenter
         LE NEVE   Sutton         frmr. & at Hanworth
         LE NEVE   William        farmer, and Hanworth; h Tunstead
         PLUMMER   James          grocer and draper
         PLUMBLY   Geo.           farmer; h South Repps
         REYNOLDS  Joshua         farmer
         SKIPPER   Edmund         vict. New Inn, and whsle. & retail wine
                                    & spirit mert. & cigar imprtr. frmr.
                                    & postmaster
         TROUSDALE Rev. Robert,
                     B.A.         rector, Rectory
         WOODHOUSE Hy.            farm steward, Hill frm

COACHES pass through daily during the summer from Norwich to Cromer

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