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WOOD-DALLING, a scattered village and parish, including CRABGATE and TYBY, from 3 to 4 miles N. by W. of Reepham, is in Aylsham union and county court district, Norwich bankruptcy district, Eynsford hundred and petty sessional division, Reepham polling district of North Norfolk, Sparham rural deanery, and Norwich archdeaconry. It had 484 inhabitants in 1881, living on 2444 acres, and has a rateable value of £3427.
The parish lies partly in a fertile dale. It was anciently called Dallinga, and was long held by the Dalling family, one of whom built the Hall (now a farmhouse) about 1582. Colonel W.E.G.L. Bulwer is lord of the manors of Wood-Dalling, Monceaux, Halwood-Noijons, and Crabgate; but James Gay, Robert Ives, and J.P. and E.C. Francis, Esqs., and some smaller owners, have estates here.
The CHURCH (St. Andrew) is a large fabric comprising nave with aisles, north and south porches, chancel, and lofty square tower with five bells. It contains a good harmonium, a fine piscina, and several inscriptions and brasses of the Bulwer and other families; and was re-roofed and re-seated in 1852, and heated in 1883, by subscription.
The vicarage is valued in the King's Book at £8 8s. 4d. The patronage, with 110 acres of land and the rectorial tithes, belongs to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and the Rev. Edmund Worlledge, M.A., is the incumbent. There is an Elizabethan vicarage-house, which was erected in 1850. The tithes were commuted in 1839 for £379 19s. 11d. per annum, and are held on lease by Colonel W.E.G.L. Bulwer. The vicarial glebe is 56A. 1R. 38P. The vicar has also a yearly modus of £38 9s. 6¾d.
Near it is the School, built in 1851, and transferred to School Board in 1883. Here is an Independent and also a Primitive Methodist chapel. The poor have a yearly rent-charge of £6 10s., left by Edward Bulwer in 1658, out of land called Blooms.
POST OFFICE at Mr. W. Howard's. Letters from Norwich, viâ Reepham, are received at 8 a.m., and are despatched at 2.40 p.m. Reepham is the nearest Money Order Office and Railway Station.
Balls John farm bailiff Bussens Robert farmer, Tyby Bussens James butcher & victualler, Jolly Farmers Clark Alfred farmer, Crabgate farm Clark Herbert George farmer Cottrill Josiah wheelwright Cowell Arthur carpenter Dack Robert farm bailiff Dawson Robert farm bailiff Eke John carrier Farrow George farmer Fitt Robert bricklayer Francis John Philip farmer; h Wood-Norton Grapes Jonathan grocer and draper Hardiment Frederick blacksmith Howard Wm. grcr. drpr. and postmstr Hutchins Mrs Eleanor schoolmistress Ireland Hy. John farmer, auctioneer, & estate agt. The Hall; & Norwich Ives Robert farmer; h Calthorpe Jones George farmer Kelty Alfred bricklayer & parish clk Margeson Barnes farmer Margeson Edward farmer, Tyby Moul Mrs Elizabeth farmer Pomfrey Matthew farmer Prior Mrs Ann victualler, Plough Riches Jeremiah farmer Riches John butcher & assist. overseer Ward Walter & William carpenters and blacksmiths Wilson Robert blacksmithCARRIER - J. Eke, to Norwich, Wed. and Sat.
Copyright © Pat Newby.
August 2009