Norfolk: Weybourne

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

WEYBOURN, or Wayborne, 4 miles N.E. of Holt, is a small village picturesquely seated on the sea-coast, and sheltered on the other sides by a semicircular range of towering hills. Its parish has 311 souls, and 1459A. of land, exclusive of beach and wastes. It has a large brewery, a fish-curing house, and several fishing-boats. Of the whole Norfolk coast, this is the point most open to the enemy. At a point called Weybourn Hope, are traces of fortifications; and the sea is there so deep, that ships may lie against the shore.

The Earl of Orford is lord of the manor, owner of most of the soil, and patron of the Church (All Saints,) which was formerly much larger, being attached to the priory founded here in the reign of Henry II., for Augustine canons, and granted at the dissolution to Richard Heydon. The benefice is a donative, in the incumbency of the Rev. John Gunton, A.M., of Marsham. The parish is exempt from episcopal jurisdiction; and the tithes were commuted, in 1839, for £300 per annum. The Rev. Cremer Cremer is the officiating curate.

DIRECTORY:-

	Bolding  Mrs. Eliz. Jennis
	Bolding  John, Esq.        brewer and maltster
	Blogg    Henry             shoemaker
	Bunn     Edw.              blacksmith
	Copling  Richard           grocer and draper
	Dady     Richd.            wheelwright and fish curer
	Dawson   John              miller
	Lane     Mrs. Frances
	Purdy    Miss Mary
	Pilch    John              tailor and vict. Ship
	Rowland  Wm.               vict. Crown and Anchor

	   farmers

	Craske   John and Wm.
	Dady     Dd.
	Dawson   John
	Nurse    John              (owner)
	Pardon   Robert
	Piggott  Wm.
	Pilch    Wm.