Norfolk: Walcott

William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1864

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WALCOTT, or Wolcot, on the coast, 1½ mile W. of Happisburgh, and 5½ miles E. by N. of North Walsham, has in its parish 141 inhabitants and 685A. of land. Sir Samuel Bignold, Kt., is lord of the manor, but part of the soil belongs to several other proprietors.

The Church (All Saints) is an ancient flint building of the perpendicular period, and consists of nave, chancel, south porch, and square embattled tower with one bell. The sedilia and chancel-screen still remain, and are of good decorated work, the former having four seats, with canopies resting on clustered columns. Here are several marble tablets. Eighty-two members of the Siely family have been buried in their vault in this church.

The perpetual curacy was certified at £26, and is now valued at £43. It was augmented in 1800 and 1817 with £600 of Queen Anne's Bounty, and is now in the incumbency of the Rev. H.N.W. Comyn, of Brunstead. The Bishop of Norwich is patron, and also appropriator of the tithes, which have been commuted for £321 per annum, exclusive of the yearly payment of £24. 10s. to the rector of Ridlington, and £2. 10s. to the impropriator and vicar of Happisburgh.

The poor have 40s. a year from Mr. Wenn's farm, as compensation for a piece of waste land, enclosed about 50 years ago by Mr. Atkinson. The sea is rapidly encroaching on this parish. POST from Norwich via Stalham.

           Cook     William      vict., Light House
           Gaze     Mrs & Miss   boarding school
           Gaze     Rt.          cattle dlr.
           Gibbons  Jno.         smith
           Harbord  Sarah        grocer and draper
           Plummer  Wm.          wheelwright & par. clerk
 
              FARMERS.
           (* are Owners.)
 
         * Bush     John
           Lyall    Robert
           Sandell  William
           Palmer   James, jun.  (& coal &c. mert.)
           Turner   Edmund
         * Wenn     William
           Wiseman  John
 

See also the Walcott parish page.

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January 2008