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PENSTHORPE parish, 2 miles E. of Fakenham, is in Walsingham union, Gallow hundred and petty sessional division, Fakenham county court district, Norwich bankruptcy district, Fakenham polling district of West Norfolk, Burnham rural deanery, and Norfolk archdeaconry. It had 20 inhabitants in 1881, living on 753 acres, and has a rateable value of £836.
The parish is in one farm, belonging to the trustees of the late Rev. R. Hamond, and occupied by Washington Hamond.
The Church was desecrated many years ago, and its remains now form a cattle shed. The rectory, valued in the King's Book at £10, and now at £170, is in the gift of certain trustees, and in the incumbency of the Rev. Samuel Dendy of Lattiford House, Wincanton, Somerset.
POST from Fakenham, which is the nearest Money Order Office.
Hamond Washington farmer
Copyright © Pat Newby.
August 2004