Melville and Co.'s Directory and Gazetteer of Norwich, Yarmouth, Dereham, Swaffham, Wymondham, Fakenham, Thetford, Attleborough, Aylsham, Diss, Reepham, Foulsham, Hingham, &c.; Ipswich, Bury St. Edmund's, Woodbridge, Lowestoft, Beccles, Bungay, Halesworth, Eye, Stowmarket, Needham Market, &c. [1856]

by F. R. Melville & Co.

Read, George, farmer

Spanton, Francis, victualler, Brick Kilns

Worth, Misses Susan, Maria and Sophia, the Hall

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