Norfolk: Rockland All Saints with St. Andrew

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

[Transcription copyright Š Pamela Littlefair]

ROCKLAND (ALL SAINTS and ST. ANDREW,) are two adjoining parishes, with a scattered village (chiefly cottages,) distant 4 miles W. of Attleborough, and extending into Rockland St. Peter's. ALL SAINTS has 352 souls, and 916 acres; and ST. ANDREW'S has 124 souls and 669 acres.

Wayland Union Workhouse is in the former parish. The Rev. Sir E.B. Smyth, Bart., owns most of the soil, and is lord of the manors of Kirkhall, Moynes, and Gurneys, in Rockland Tofts, and Carbonels, in Rockland.

St. Andrew's church was dilapidated when Blomefield wrote, and the benefice consolidated with All Saints' Church, a small fabric, with a square tower and three bells. The discharged and consolidated rectories of All Saints and St. Andrew are valued in the King's Book at Ł10.19s.4d., and in 1831, at Ł1025 per annum, with that of Caston annexed to them. The Rev. B. Barker, of Shipdham, is patron and incumbent. Rockland gives name to a Deanery.

The Fuel Allotment, 26A.2R.35P, was awarded to the poor of the two parishes in 1814, and is let for Ł15. Two cottages and 3 roods of land were given to the poor by an unknown donor.

In the following DIRECTORY, those marked 1 are in All Saints'; 2, in St. Andrew's, and 3, in St. Peter's parish.

	1  Allen     Edward   leather cutter
	3  Baraham   John     gunsmith
	2  Brown     Stephen  wheelwright
	1  Chapman   James    blacksmith
	1  Dunthorne Wm.      baker
	2  Mann      Frmn.    vict. White Hart
	1  Rout      John     shopkeeper
	2  Sayer     Thomas   corn miller
	3  Stanley   John     beerhouse
	2  Wilkins   Thomas   beerhouse

	                   FARMERS

	1  Barnard   Benj.        1  Greengrass Geo.
	2  Brown     Edwd         1  Houchen    Robert
	1  Buckenham W.           1  Leeder     Robert
	2  Colman    Robt.        2  Mann       Joseph
	2  Colman    Wm.          1  Towler     Jane
	2  Denew     John         1  Whiting    James
	1  Fielding  Wm.

CARRIER: Bowen, John, to Norwich, Wed. and Caston, Sat.

See also the Rockland All Saints with St. Andrew and the Rockland St. Peter parish pages.

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