Norfolk: Strumpshaw

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

STRUMPSHAW is a well-built, but dispersed village, on an eminence, 8½ miles E. by S. of Norwich, comprising within its parish 412 inhabitants, and about 1200 acres, belonging to a number of freeholders and some copyholders; the latter are subject to arbitrary fines, payable to the heirs of the late E. Walpole, Esq., as lords of the manor. The ancient lords were the Dan-Martins and the Bardolphs.

The Church (St. Peter,) was new pewed and covered with blue slate, in 1819, at the cost of £150. The living is a rectory, valued in the King's Book at £8, and in 1831 at £486, with that of Bradestone annexed to it, in the patronage and incumbency of the Rev. E.S. Whitbread, M.A., who has a commodious residence, and 64A. of glebe. The tithes of Strumpshaw were commuted in 1844, for £370 per annum.

The windmill, in this parish, is supposed to stand on the highest hill in Norfolk, and the prospect which it commands is certainly the finest coup d'œil in the county, extending to Yarmouth, Norwich, the light houses of Happisburgh, and the country southward to the borders of Suffolk. This lofty eminence of sand and gravel has the appearance of having been thrown up by the sea; and 100 feet below the summit, boulder stones are found of the same description as those on the coast near Yarmouth.

The Fuel Allotment, about 10A. of marsh, was awarded at the enclosure in 1810, and is let for £9 a year. The poor have also a coomb of wheat yearly, out of Mr. Atkin's farm, pursuant to the bequest of Wm. Black, in 1755.

	 Atkins    Thomas         gentleman
	 Alexander Robert         tailor
	 Agus      Wm.            vict. Goat
	 Drury     Richard        schoolmaster
	 Denton    James          timber merchant
	 Dingle    John           shopkeeper
	 Goffen    Alexander      bricklayer
	 Goffen    Thomas         brickmaker
	 Hilling   Robert         shopkeeper
	 Hylton    John           blacksmith
	 Johnson   John           tailor
	 Oakley    Thomas         parish clerk
	 Plow      Christopher    shoemaker
	 Porter    Benjamin       coal dealer
	 Smith     Robert         blacksmith
	 Spooner   John           wheelwright & vict. Shoulder of Mutton
	 Tuck      Thomas Gilbert,
	             Esq
	 Wales     Robert         cattle dealer
	 Welch     George         corn miller, &c
	 Wells     Mary           boarding school
	 Whitbread Rev Edmund
	             Salter, M.A. Rectory

	   FARMERS.
	(* are Owners.)

	*Atkins    Thos.
	 Atkins    Thomas, jun
	*Barnes    John T.
	*Palmer    Charles
	 Pyle      John
	*Wells     Wm.

Carrier to Norwich, Rd. Beck, Sat.

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