Norfolk: Honing

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

HONING, a small village and parish, on the east side of the canal, nearly 4 miles S.E. of North Walsham, has 344 inhabitants, 1024A. of enclosed land, and about 300A. of wood, heath, and common. The principal owner and lord of the manor, is Edward Geo. Cubitt, Esq., of Honing Hall, a large modern mansion of brick, with a richly-wooded lawn.

The CHURCH (St. Peter and St. Paul,) was re-built in 1796, except the tower. The vicarage, valued in the King's Book at Ł4. 13s. 4d., is consolidated with that of Dilham. (See page 478 [which is the entry for Dilham.) The glebe here is 17A., and the tithes were commuted in 1842, for the yearly rent of Ł145 to the vicar, and Ł283 to the Bishop of Ely, the appropriator.

The poor have the interest of Ł46, arising from the sale of a house left by John Gibbs. Rents amounting to Ł37s. 17s. [sic] a year from 3A. 2R. 36P., left by Thomas Husband, in 1613, and 18A. 3P., left by John Baxter, are disposed of as follows: Ł12 for schooling about 15 poor children; 10s. to poor widows; about 20s. to lying-in-women; and the residue is carried to the accounts of the churchwardens, who held a balance of Ł132. in 1833.

	 Algar    James          schoolmaster
	 Barcham  Wm.            grocer and draper
	 Beck     James          vict. Gardeners' Arms
	 Brown    Wm.            grocer and beerhouse
	 Buley    Buckingham     blacksmith
	 Cubitt   Edw. Geo. Esq. Honing Hall
	 Gaze     George         auctioneer, &c.
	 Martin   John           nurseryman
	 Watts    Wm.            vict. White Swan
	 Waters   John           blacksmith
	 Warnes   Henry          shoemaker
	 Wiseman  Thomas         shoemaker
	 Youngman Thomas         corn miller

	    FARMERS. (* are yeomen.)

	 Buffhan  Robert
	 Bush     Thomas
	 Cole     John
	 Gage     Charles
	 Gage     George
	*Gedge    James
	 Palmer   James
	 Steward  John
	 Youngman Rd.
	 Watson   Thomas