Norfolk: Great Witchingham

Kelly's Directory of Norfolk 1933: Entry for Lenwade

LENWADE is a parish, on the river Wensum, over which there is a bridge of three arches, with a station on the Midland and Great Northern joint railway, 1 mile south of the church, 10 miles north-west from Norwich and 10 miles south from Aylsham, in the Eastern division of the county, Eynsford hundred and petty sessional division, St. Faith's rural district and Norwich county court district. A new bridge was erected over the Wensum by the Norfolk County Council in 1928.

All Saints' Mission church, erected in 1888, in connection with St. Mary's, Great Witchingham, at a cost of £600, is an edifice of red brick and will seat 120 persons.

Here is a Methodist chapel, erected in 1905, at a cost of £320.

Letters through Norwich. Great Witchingham nearest M.O. & T. office.

Railway Station (M & G.N. Joint)

PRIVATE RESIDENTS.

(For T N see general list of Private Residents at end of book.)

	Amphlett-Moss Miss
	Comer         Mrs.            Wensum house
	Frazer-Allen  Mrs.            Mill house
	Sayer         Miss            The Cottage
	Sayer         Robert F.       White house
	Tate          Lt.-Col. A.W.,
	                D.S.O.        Lenwade house

COMMERCIAL.

	Arthurton     Eustace         harness mkr
	Baker         Gerald          wheelwright
	Chapman       E. & Son        bakers
	Childerstone  Rd.             blacksmith
	Earl          Jas.            tinsmith
	Freeston      Wm.             coal mer. Railway stn
	George        Walter          farmer, Bridge farm & representative
	                                for The English Beet Sugar Corporation
	                                Ltd. T N Gt. Witchingham 42
	Graves        Kate (Miss)     tea rooms & board residence, West Dene
	Howard        Chas. Horace
	                (exors. of)   butchers. T N Gt. Witchingham 39
	Hubbard       W. & Sons       builders & contractors, undertakers,
	                                house decorators &c
	Lock          Edwd. A.        Bridge inn
	Pearce        Wm.             King's Head P.H.
	Richmond      Albt.           cycle agt. & dlr
	Rowlands      Herbt. Jn.      motor car garage
	Sayer         Bros.           millers (water & steam), corn &
	                                flour merchants & poultry food
	                                manufacturers, Lenwade flour mills.
	                                T N Gt. Witchingham 27
	Swoish        Harry G.        hairdrssr
	Warnes        Anna (Miss)     [district] nurse, 6 Council houses

Witchingham Approved Friendly Society (H. Andrews, sec.), Gothic ho
Witchingham Memorial Hall (G. Baker, hon.sec.)
Witchingham Working Men's Club (R.C. Howard, hon.sec.), The Memorial hall

Note: T N means Telephone Number.

See also the Great Witchingham parish page.

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