Norfolk: Swannington

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

SWANNINGTON, a parish and scattered village, 3˝ miles S.S.E. of Reepham, and 9 miles N.W. by W. of Norwich, has 358 inhabitants, and 1281 acres of land, exclusive of 100A. of common. J.C.B. Ogilvie, Esq., of London, owns a great part of the soil, and is lord of the manor, (fine arbitrary.) The Lawn, a neat mansion, with some beautiful stained glass in its windows, is the seat of E. Bartell, Esq..

The Church, (St. Margaret,) is a rectory, valued in the King's Book at Ł6. 5s. 11d., and consolidated with the vicarage of Wood Dalling, in the patronage of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and incumbency of the Rev. Fredk. Hildyard, M.A., who has here a neat residence; 13A. of glebe, and a yearly rent of Ł408, awarded in 1841, in lieu of tithes.

The Poor's Land, left by John Carter, in 1641, is 6A., let for Ł7. 16s. Stphn. Sheering, in 1643, left a yearly rent-charge of Ł5, for the poor of Swannington, out of the King's Head and Boar's Head, in Bucklersbury, London.

	 Artis     Thomas          tailor
	 Bartell   Edmund, Esq.    The Lawn
	 Bell      Geo.            shopkr.
	 Chapman   Philip          grocer, &c.
	 Chubbock  Thos.           vict. Black Horse
	 Hildyard  Rev Fredk. M.A. Rectory
	 Means     Mrs My.
	 Norman    John            joiner and builder
	 Ottway    Robert          blacksmith
	 Rouse     John            joiner, &c.
	 Smith     Benjamin        shoemaker
	 Spark     Wm. & Danl.     wheelwrights
	 Spinks    Wm.             butcher

	    FARMERS.
	(* are Owners)

	*Cooke     Thos. Esq.
	 Crowe     Thos. Bird      Hall
	 Green     Stephen
	*Lowe      Samuel
	 Pye       Wm.