Norfolk: Runhall

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

RUNHALL parish, near the chief source of the river Yare, 12 miles W. of Norwich, and 4½ miles N.E. of Hingham, has 248 souls, and 761A. of land, mostly belonging to Lord Wodehouse, the lord of the manor, impropriator, and patron of the vicarage, valued in the King's Book at £6. 18s., and augmented from 1742 to 1824, with £1200 of Queen Anne's Bounty, though valued in 1831 at only £60 per annum. The Hon. and Rev. Wm. Wodehouse is the incumbent.

The Church (All Saints,) has a round tower, and formerly had a chancel, of which some fragments are still extant.

The poor have 10s. a year, left by a Mr. Lindsey, out of Mr. Thurling's estate.

DIRECTORY:

	Bowles    Geo.           shopkeeper
	Hardy     Chas.          blacksmith
	Murrell   Chas.          shopkeeper
	Smith     Jeremiah       miller, baker, and carpenter
	Thurling  Mr. Robert

	   farmers

	Atkins    Henry
	Breese    Wm.
	Coleman   John
	Durrant   Isaiah
	Thurling  Peter,
	            sen. and jun.