Norfolk: South Runcton

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

RUNCTON (SOUTH) parish, 4 miles N. by E. of Downham, has only 144 souls, and 800 acres of land, mostly belonging, with the manor, to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridgeshire, by gift of Dr. Caius.

The CHURCH, (St. Andrew,) is a small Saxon fabric, which, after being long a roofless ruin, was repaired in 1836, at the cost of about Ł300. The rectory, valued in the King's Book at Ł12, is consolidated with those of Holme and Wallington. (See page 620 [which is the entry for Runcton Holme].)

The National School was built in 1839. The poor have the site of a tenement, let for 15s., and a yearly rent charge of Ł2, left by Thos. Taylor.

Directory:-

	Bagnall   Charles     shopkeeper
	Gullridge Thomas      beer seller
	Stevens   Thos.       schoolmaster
	Saxton    Thos.       shoemaker

	   farmers

	Cambridge Fredk. and
	            William
	Platt     Charles