Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for DEOPHAM

DEOPHAM, a parish in Forehoe district, Norfolk; 3¼ miles N of Attleborough r. station, and 3¾ W by S of Wymondham. It has a post office, of the name of Deopham-Green, under Wymondham. Acres, 1, 646. Real property, £3, 773. Pop., 483. Houses, 117. The property is much subdivided. A lime-tree, at Deopham-High-Tree, near a petrifying spring, was described by Evelyn as 48 feet in girth at the ground, 36 feet at ½ a yard above, and 25½ at two yards. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £240. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury. The church is later English; and its chancel was restored in 1864. There are two Primitive Methodist chapels, a national school, and charities £21.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Deopham CP/AP       Forehoe RegD/PLU/Inc       Norfolk AncC
Place: Deopham

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