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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.
Copyright © Pat Newby.
June 2004