Willimont, Kirby John, baker, Baxter row
Wilson, James, beer shop, Back lane
Wilson, Thomas, baker, Hall lane
Woodcock, Sarah, beer retailer, Etling green
Wright, Elizabeth, milliner, Market-place
SWAFFHAM.
Swaffham. A parish, market, union, polling town, and railway station, in South Greenhoe hundred, West Norfolk, and Norwich Bishopric, 15 miles E.S.E. of Lynn, 27 miles W. of Norwich, and 93 miles N.N.E. of London. The population, in 1851, was 3858; and the yearly value of assessed property, in 1815, was £11,218.
This town, one of the most beautiful in the county, is pleasantly situated on a rising ground, in a fine open country. The market is held on Saturdays. Annual fairs are held on the second Wednesday in May, the third Wednesday in July, and the first Wednesday in November, for cattle and sheep; the latter is one of the largest cattle fairs in Norfolk. The general quarter sessions of the peace are held here, by adjournment from the city of Norwich.
The Church of St. Peter and St. Paul is said to have been built in 1474, and is cruciform in plan, with an embattled tower, bearing two shields. About seven years since, in repairing the Church, and in removing the “Tinker and the Dog,” they found, carved in Latin,
“Love me, love my dog.”