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Norfolk: Runham

Kelly's Directory of Norfolk 1892

RUNHAM is a parish on the banks of the navigable Bure, 3 miles south-west from Ormesby station on the Eastern and Midlands railway, about 6 miles north-west by the old road, but only 4½ by the new road and the ferry, from Yarmouth, in the Eastern division of the county, incorporated hundreds, petty sessional division and incorporation of East and West Flegg, county court district of Great Yarmouth, rural deanery of Flegg and archdeaconry and diocese of Norwich.

There is a ferry here called "Runham Swim" across the river Bure.

The church of SS. Peter and Paul is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave and an embattled western tower with four pinnacles, erected by a bequest made in 1501, and containing 3 bells: in 1855 it was restored, from designs by Mr. W.A. Morant, of Yarmouth: there are 200 sittings. The register dates from the year 1538.

The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £211, net yearly value £234, including 27 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Norwich, and held since 1868 by the Rev. Francis Conway Steward, M.A. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Here is a small Primitive Methodist chapel, built in 1868.

There is 1 acre of land for poor widows and a poor's allotment of 27 acres, let at about £41 yearly, which sum is distributed in coals.

Thomas Alfred Rising esq. of South quay, Yarmouth, is lord of the manor and William Fabb, J. Parvies, Robert Fellowes esq. J.P., D.L. of Shotesham park, Frederick William Waters esq. and Mrs. Read are the principal landowners.

The soil is good mixed; subsoil, light clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats, hay &c. The area of the parish is 1,636 acres; rateable value, £3,152; the population in 1891 was 295.

Sexton, George Palmer.

POST & M.O.O., S.B. & Annuity & Insurance Office. - John Brown, postmaster. Letters arrive from Yarmouth 7.40 a.m. & are despatched at 5.20 p.m. The nearest telegraph office is at Ormesby.

A School Board of 5 members was formed compulsarily 19 November, 1889, for the principal part of the parish & Thrigby; H. Chamberlain, 13 Queen street, Yarmouth, clerk to the board; William Fabb, of Runham, attendance officer.

Board School for this parish & Thrigby, built, with teachers' residence, in 1854, at a cost of £512; it will hold 70 children; average attendance, 49; Mrs. Sarah Carpenter, mistress.

	Fabb     William
	Read     Mrs
	Steward  Rev. Fras.    Vicarage
	           Conway M.A.

	   COMMERCIAL.

	Barber   James         farmer
	Brown    John          shopkeeper, Post office
	Browne   Zachariah     farmer
	Crow     Robert        farmer
	Fabb     John Charles  farmer, Rookery frm
	Hewitt   Alfred        farmer
	Howes    Benjamin      market gardener
	Knights  Edward        cowkeeper
	Newson   John          carpenter
	Nichols  Job           farmer
	Palmer   Clement       blacksmith
	Palmer   William       Three Horse Shoes P.H
	Smith    Daniel        farmer, Manor & White Gate farms;
	                         & at Filby
	Smith    George        farmer
	Smith    William       butcher
	Thaxter  Robert        farmer & ferryman, Runham Swim ferry;
	                         & at Southtown
	Thurtle  Walter        cattle dealer

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