Norfolk: Sharrington

William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1883

SHARRINGTON, 3 miles W.S.W. of Holt, has its parish in Walsingham union, Holt hundred and petty sessional division, Fakenham county court district, Norwich bankruptcy district, Holt polling district of North Norfolk, Holt rural deanery, and Norwich archdeaconry. It had 216 inhabitants in 1881, and comprises 863 acres of land. The rateable value is £1413. It mostly belongs to the representatives of the Rev. Sir E.R. Jodrell, the lords of the manor.

The CHURCH (All Saints) comprises nave, chancel, vestry, and square tower with one bell. The sedilia, piscina, and several brasses still remain in the chancel. The Rev. Sir Edward Repps Jodrell, Bart., gave the altar cloth of purple velvet, and the font of Caen stone, and built a good schoolroom in 1858.

The Rev. Sir E.R. Jodrell, Bart., is patron of the rectory, which was valued in the King's Book at £10, and is in the incumbency of the Rev. Charles Brumell, M.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge, who has 1½ acre of glebe, a good residence built in 1863, and a yearly rent-charge of £300, awarded in 1842, in lieu of tithes.

The late Sir H.P. Jodrell, Bart., left £100 to the poor. At the junction of three roads in this parish are the remains of an ancient cross. The common was enclosed in 1796. To £40 left by Christopher Ringer, £15 were added by William Arnold and Christopher West, and with the interest blankets are purchased for the poor.

POST from East Dereham.

	Bangay   Richard        parish clerk
	Brumell  Rev. Charles,
	           M.A.         rector, Rectory
	Carmen   Robert         shopkeeper
	Clarke   Mrs Mary Ann   machine owner
	Green    Charles        vict. Swan Inn, farmer, assistant
	                          overseer for Hunworth and Saxlingham,
	                          collector of taxes for Bale, Gunthorpe,
	                          Saxlingham, and Sharrington, attendance
	                          officer for Brinton School Board, and
	                          agent for the Alliance Fire & Life
	                          Insurance Company
	Green    William        farmer
	Key      Edwd.          bldr. contractor, and assistant
	           Sturgess       overseer and collector for Thornage
	Lakey    George         farmer
	Lewis    John           farmer
	Mindham  Mrs Mary       shopkeeper
	Russell  Benjamin       harness maker and vict. Hastings Arms Inn
	Spencer  John           harness maker
	Turner   Miss Ann       farmer
	Turner   Charles        farmer
	Wright   Miss           farmer