MARSHAM.

A parish and considerable village in South Erpingham hundred, Aylsham Union, East Norfolk, 2 miles south of Aylsham, and 10 north from Norwich: contained, in 1851, 662 inhabitants. The area of the parish is 1,819 acres; the soil belongs to various owners. W. Repton, Esq., is lord of the manor.

The church of All Saints has a nave, chancel, and square tower, 8 bells, and an ancient screen and font. The chancel has some stones to the memory of the Norris and other families. The living is a rectory, in the gift of the Earl of Lichfield; the Rev. John Gunton, B.A., is the incumbent, by whom a neat rectory house has been built, assisted by Queen Anne’s bounty, the tithes commuted for £344. The poor’s land produces a rental of £16 5s. per annum. Here is a school, supported by the rector. The Primitive Methodists have a chapel here.

Cook, John, shopkeeper and brickmaker

Elvin, David, miller

Elvin, William, shopkeeper

Farmer, James, farmer

Forster, William, schoolmaster to parish school

Gunton, Rev. John, rector

Howlett, John, farmer

Jones, John, boot and shoe maker and shopkeeper

Jones, John, farmer

Jones, Robert, boot and shoe maker

Kellington, Samuel, post-office

Lake, William, White Hart

Lambert, John, farmer

Marsham, Rev. Henry, rector of Brampton and curate of Stratton, Marsham Hall

Mason, Edward, Plough and Shuttle

Moore, Edward, blacksmith

Skipper, Isaac, boot and shoe maker

Soam, Peter, farmer

Spink, Peter, shopkeeper

Tredwell, John, farmer

Warnes, Miss Elizabeth

Warnes, Mrs. Emily, Baldwick Hall

Watts and Brothers, farmers

Wighton, Thomas, farmer