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Norfolk: Thornage

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

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THORNAGE, a pleasant village, 2½ miles S.W. of Holt, has in its parish 325 souls, and 1338A. 2R. 21P. of land, of which 1088 acres are arable.

Lord Hastings owns most of the soil, and is lord of the manor and patron of the Church, which has a nave, chancel, tower, and north porch. The rectory, valued in the King's Book at £6. 18s. 4d., and in 1831, at £480, with that of Brinton annexed to it, is in the incumbency of the Rev. Augustus Dashwood, who has here 35A. 1R. 1P. of glebe, and a good residence. The tithes of Thornage were commuted, in 1839, for £248. 10s. per annum.

The communion plate is very ancient, and the cup is inscribed, "was the gyfte of John Butts (or Butes,) and Margaret, his wyfe - 1456." His family were long possessed of the manor; and one of them, Henry Butts, D.D., was vice-chancellor of Oxford University in 1629, but was found, soon afterwards, "hanging in his garters, in his own chamber." He was son of Sir Wm. Butts, physician in ordinary to Henry VIII.

	Clare      Joseph         bricklayer
	Cook       Wm. & R.       millers (& Glandford)
	Dashwood   Rev Augustus   Rectory
	Drew       George         grocer and draper
	Edmunds    James          beerseller
	Hunter     Thomas         tailor
	Ives       Robert         butcher
	Mann       John           iron and brass founder, and
	                            agricultural machine maker
	Murrell    Mrs Jane
	Newman     Peter          cattle dealer
	Pye        Wm.            baker and flour dealer
	Southgate  Thomas         blacksmith
	Strutt     Zanga          shopkeper
	Williams   Joshua         joiner and vict., Black Boy

	   FARMERS.                  Shoemakers.

	Burrell    Hy.  Hall      Cushing    John
	Davy       Jonathan       Ives       Wm.
	Groom      Wm.            Williams   John
	Sheringham Valentine      Yarham     John
	             Daniel
	Williams   Thos.

See also the Thornage parish page.

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March 2006