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SKEYTON, 3½ miles E. by S. of Aylsham, and 11 miles N. of Norwich, is a parish in Aylsham union and county court district, Norwich bankruptcy district, South Erpingham hundred and petty sessional division, Aylsham polling district of North Norfolk, Ingworth rural deanery, and Norwich archdeaconry. It has a rateable value of £1944, and had 313 inhabitants in 1881, living on 1264 acres. The surface of the parish rises in bold swells from a meandering rivulet.
The soil belongs to the Rev. Francis Jex Blake, Laverocke Leggett, and Henry Bidewell, Esqrs., the trustees of the late Edmund Burr, Esq., the trustees of the late John Moore, Esq., and some smaller owners; but part of the parish is in the manor of Whitwell Hall, which belongs to L. Leggett, Esq., and is occupied by Mr. J. Wortley.
The CHURCH (All Saints) stands on a bold eminence, and was repewed about 1850, when a new font was purchased. The rectory, valued in the King's Book at £9.10s., and augmented with £200 of Queen Anne's Bounty in 1792, is in the patronage of Sir H.J. Stracey, Bart., M.P. The present rector is the Rev. Robert Edward Gaye, M.A. The tithes of Skeyton were commuted in 1840 for £343 per annum, besides £15 paid yearly to the rector of Swanton-Abbott, and 9½ acres of glebe. The Parsonage, a pleasant residence, erected in 1857, is occupied by the rector.
The Wesleyans and the Wesleyan Reformers have each a chapel here.
The SCHOOL, which is used jointly by the parishes of Skeyton and Tuttington, is a good brick building (with teacher's house attached), erected in 1856, but since enlarged. Robert King, who died here in 1727, aged 103, had 'an entire new set of teeth about ten years before his death.' The commons were enclosed in 1814. Here is a good bed of clay, from which red and white bricks, &c, are extensively manufactured. The Church Register dates from 1706.
Post from Norwich via Swanton-Abbott. The nearest Railway Stations are Buxton-Lammas (3½ miles) and Felmingham (2 miles). Nearest Money Order and Telegraph Office at Buxton-Lammas.
Beck Isaac farmer
Bird Hy. parish clerk; h Tuttington
Bugden John farmer
Cooper William blacksmith
Gaye Rev. Robert
Edwd. M.A. rector
Gooch Frederick farmer
Harmer John Daniel schoolmaster
Hylton Frederick farmer
Kett John horse dealer
Moy James farmer
Page William farmer
Pilgrim James bootmaker
Pitcher George shopkeeper
Pooley Cook pig dealer
Pooley Francis shopkeeper
Pooley Mr. Robert
Postle John farmer, Skeyton lodge
Roofe William farmer
Spinks John vict. Goat
Slaughter Isaac brick, tile & pottery manufacturer
Watson William vict. Black Horse
Wortley John farmer, Whitwell hall
See also the Skeyton parish page.
Copyright © Pat Newby.
May 1999