Wilson, Philip, hair dresser, Magdalen street
Woolsey, Abraham, Albion inn, Magdalen street
Woolsey, William, George inn, Back street
Wright, George, plumber and glazier, Great Magdalen street
Youngs, Thomas, the Angel, Guildhall street
FAKENHAM.
Fakenham, formerly called Fakenham-Lancaster, is a market-town and parish, 33¾ miles from Norwich, and 137½ from London. The town is very pleasantly situated on a declivity, north of the river Wensum. It has of late years been considerably improved by the erection of several neat houses: the streets are well paved, and lighted with gas. The market; held on Thursday, is well supplied and attended. There are two fairs; on Whit-Monday and November 22nd. The population, in 1851, was 2,347.
The New Corn Exchange was opened August 23rd, 1855, and is a very fine erection, suitable for the purposes required.
The church of St. Peter is a handsome structure, chiefly in the later English style, with a lofty embattled tower, crowned by crocketted pinnacles, and containing eight bells; it has a nave and chancel, with north and south aisles. A new east window, in five compartments, partly filled with stained glass, was erected in 1805, and a new organ in 1826—the latter at the expense of the late rector. The inside of the church is neatly pewed; the chancel is separated from the nave by a finely-carved screen; the font is octangular, and embellished with carvings of the arms of the duchy of Lancaster, and the emblems of the Evangelists, the Trinity, and the Passion. A beautiful altar-piece of Bath stone, in the Gothic style, designed by Mr. Brown of Norwich, and executed by Mr. Daniel Forster, was put up in 1844. The living is a rectory, in the gift of Trinity College, Cambridge. The Rev. M. A. Atkinson is the rector.