Norfolk: Thuxton

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

[Transcription copyright © Juanita Hadwin]

THUXTON, or Thurston parish, 3½ miles N. of Hingham, is in Mitford and Launditch union, petty sessional division and hundred, Dereham county court district, Norwich bankruptcy district, Hingham polling district of South Norfolk, Mitford division of Hingham rural deanery, and Norfolk archdeaconry. It had 101 inhabitants in 1881, and comprises 1085A. 4R. 10P. The rateable value is £2024. The soil belongs to the Earl of Kimberley and the Rev. H.E. Lombe, the former of whom is lord of the manor of Thuxton Hall, and the latter of that of Thuxton Waces. On Mr. Abbott's farm is one of the finest oaks in the county.

The CHURCH (St. Paul) is a small edifice, comprising nave, chancel, north porch, and low square tower with octagonal belfry and one bell. The rectory, valued in the King's Book at £4 6s. 2d., and now at £260, is in the patronage of Frederick O. Taylor, Esq., and incumbency of the Rev. Henry Wright, M.A., who has a pleasant residence on the Norwich road, built in 1850. The tithes were commuted in 1844 for £260 a year.

The Fuel Allotment, awarded in 1811, 2A. 0R. 1P., lets for £4, and the Poor's Land, 1A. 0R. 15P., lets for £2 5s., which is distributed in coal to the poor, who have also 5s. yearly from Mowting's charity.

Here is a station on the Dereham branch of the Great Eastern Railway.

POST OFFICE. - Letter-Box cleared at 5.55 p.m. Post viâ Attleborough. Nearest Money Order and Telegraph Office at Hingham.

         ABBOT    Robert            owner and farmer
         CUSTANCE Joshua            farmer
         HOLMAN   Mrs Mary          farmer & owner
         PAGE     Alfred            station agent
         PALMER   Alfred William    frmr. & ownr
         PALMER   Stephen William   farmer and owner
         SEAMAN   Richard           parish clerk
         TAYLOR   Francis Oddin     farmer and owner
         WRIGHT   Rev. Henry        rector, Thuxton rectory
 

See also the Thuxton parish page.

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June 2011