Norfolk: West Winch

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

WINCH (WEST) is a village of detached houses on and near the Setch turnpike, 3 miles S. of Lynn, comprising in its parish 415 inhabitants, and about 1,200 acres of land, partly in the low meadows and common on the east side of the river Nar. Lord Henry Cholmondeley is lord of the manor; but a great part of the soil belongs to twelve smaller freeholders, and a number of copyholders.

The CHURCH, (St. Mary,) has recently been thoroughly repaired, and the living is a rectory, valued in the King's Book at £9 13s. 4d., and now worth about £350 a year, having 38 acres of glebe, and a yearly rent awarded in lieu of tithes, in 1840. The patronage is in the Crown, and the Rev. Martin Hogge, M.A., of Southacre, is the incumbent. Here is no rectory-house, but D. Gurney, Esq., generously pays the rent of the curate's residence.

Here are three cottages, with small plots of land, and nine common-rights, belonging to the poor.

Here is a National School, built in 1837.

The Church Land, &c., comprises a cottage, 5A. of enclosed land, and a common-right, let for £16 a year. The church was new roofed in 1824, at the cost of £230.

The poor parishioners have three cottages, and 2A. of land called the Town Yards, let for £6, and nine commonrights, let for £18 a year. The rents are distributed in coals. In 1844, a Society was formed here, on an excellent plan, proposed by Mr. James Wake, for the purpose of hiring land and letting it out to the poor, on the allotment system.

	Baker       Mr. Joseph
	Bates       James              parish clerk
	Callaby     Mrs.               gardener
	Caston      John
	Chamberlain Wm.
	Chapman     William            blacksmith
	Cooper      John               shoemaker
	Creak       Mr. William        (and Lynn)
	Eller       Rev. George, M.A.  curate
	Fayers      George             corn miller
	Fishlock    John               shopkeeper
	Fuller      James              victualler, Cock
	Gore        John               shoemkr. & vict. Sportsman
	Plumpton    F.
	Self        Lionel             schoolmaster
	Silence     Nicholas           wheelwright
	Swatman     Wm., Esq.          collector of Lynn customs
	Thompson    Jas.
	Wake        Mr. Daniel
	Winks       John               victualler, Chequers
	Wright      Mrs. Sarah
	Youngs      Edw.

	                        FARMERS.

	Chapman     Wm.                Kippen     Robert
	Cross       James, (to D.      Leete      Wm. Chambers
	              McPherson)       Mark       Benjamin
	Englestown  Wm.                Shickel    John
	Fayers      Martin             Smith      L.C.
	Fetheridge  James              Wake       James, (&
	Godfrey     Jeremiah                        registrar)
	Hammond     Thos.              Ward       Thomas