Norfolk: Trunch

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

TRUNCH, 3 miles N. of North Walsham, is a considerable village, said to have had a market as late as the 16th century. It is called Trunchet in Domesday Book, and has in its parish 464 souls, and 1354A. of land. It is a member of the manor of Gimingham Lancaster, held of the Queen by Lord Suffield, and the soil belongs to several owners, the largest of whom is Wm. Primrose, Esq., who erected a large brewery here in 1837. His family has been seated here about 3 centuries.

The Church (St. Botolph,) has a tower and four bells. The living is a rectory, valued in the King's Book at £10 13s. 4d., in the patronage of Catherine-Hall, Cambridge, and incumbency of the Rev. Thomas Jarrett, who has a good residence (rebuilt in 1832,) 23A. 1R. 7P. of glebe, and a yearly rent of £420, awarded, in 1839, in lieu of tithes.

The Methodists have a small chapel here.

Seven poor widows have 20s. a year, out of Sandpit close, left by Wm. Worts, in 1693.

	Buck       Benjamin     shopkeeper
	Canham     Wm.          gardener
	Chapman    Robert       saddler
	Chapman    Thomas       butcher
	Holl       Daniel       schoolmaster
	Jarrett    Rev Thomas   Rectory
	Long       Robert       blacksmith
	Newland    John         vict. New Inn
	Newland    Susan        vict. Crown
	Primrose   Wm., Esq.    brewer, &c.
	Watts      James        shopkeeper and
	                          carrier to Norwich, Saturday
	Woodrow    George       gentleman
	Wright     Henry        maltster, and corn and coal merchant

	   FARMERS.

	Bugden     Cornelius
	Clark      Matthew 
	Hust       Thomas
	Miller     Robert
	Wortley    Robert       (and owner)

	   Shoemakers.

	Benns      Wm.
	French     John         (& shopkeeper)
	Gibbins    Richard
	Sexton     Thomas
	Sussins    Wm.