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RINGLAND, on the west bank of the Wensum, 7 miles N.W. of Norwich, is a parish in St. Faith's union, Eynsford hundred and petty sessional division, Norwich county court district, Norwich bankruptcy district, Reepham polling district of North Norfolk, Sparham rural deanery, and Norwich archdeaconry. It had 326 inhabitants in 1881, comprises 1210 acres, and has a rateable value of about £1436. The land is mostly the property of George Duckett Berney, Esq., and several smaller owners. Lord Stafford is lord of the manor of Costessey-cum-Ringland, and George D. Berney, Esq., of the manor of Helmingham-cum-Ringland.
The CHURCH (St. Peter) is a handsome structure, with a tower and five bells, and a carved antique font. The vicarage, valued in the King's Book at £3 6s., was augmented in 1780 with £200 of Queen Anne's Bounty, which were laid out in 10 acres of land. It has also 14 acres of glebe, which in 1872 were obtained in exchange for 11A. 3R. 6P. contained in 21 separate pieces widely scattered over the parish; and the vicarial tithes were commuted, in 1840, for £106 4s. 2d. per annum. The Bishop of Norwich is patron, and the Rev. E.H.S. Bower incumbent. When Ringland was separated from Felthorpe, the tithes were commuted at £106 2s. 6d., and have since been increased to £178 3s. 10d. The present value of the living is £200.
There are about 95 acres of common. The Methodists have a small chapel here, built in 1832, now the property of George D. Berney, Esq. Mrs. Ann Le Neve, in 1718, left £200, to be laid out in land, for the support of a schoolmistress, to teach 28 or more poor children of Ringland to read and work. £50 were lost, and the remaining £150 were laid out in the purchase of 16 acres of copyhold land in Weston, now let for £27 a year.
The charities in Ringland are administered under a scheme from the Charity Commissioners. The Poor's Land, 3A. 1R., is let for £4 a year, which is distributed among the poor, together with a yearly rent-charge of 10s., left by John Laverock, in 1806, out of Dike Hill Meadow. In 1700 Francis Le Neve charged his estate here with the yearly payment of £6, for apprenticing poor boys, but it has not been paid during the present century; in fact only one boy is known to have ever been so assisted, and he out of the school charity.
The rent of a small meadow is applied to the repairs of the foot bridge, which here crosses the Wensum. A very beautiful and commodious school was built in 1873 by George D. Berney, Esq., whose friend, Robert Ketton, Esq., was architect.
POST viâ Norwich.
Abel Mrs Margaret vict. Swan Abel Mrs Mary carrier to Norwich Alexander William shopkeeper Blyth Edw. blacksmith; h Attlebridge Bower Rev. Edw. Hollier Spring, B.A. rector, Rectory Chapman Miss Jane schoolmistress Comer Charles wheelwright Kidd Benjamin market gardener Medley Elijah vict. King of Prussia, and farmer Neave William farmer Nichols William bricklayer Plummer Colin shopkeeper
Copyright © Pat Newby.
November 2007