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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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LOPHAM (NORTH), a village and a parish in Guiltcross district, Norfolk. The village stands 3 miles N of the boundary with Suffolk, 4½ SE of East Harling r. station, and 11 E of Thetford; carries on a manufacture of linen, diaper, dowlas, and huckaback; and has a postoffice under Thetford. The parish comprises 2,000 acres. Real property, £3,575. Pop. in 1851,832; in 1861,771. Houses, 173. The property is much subdi-vided. The manor and much of the land belong to the Duke of Norfolk. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of South Lopham, in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £619.* Patron, the Rev. J. Bateman, who must present a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. The church was built by W. Bigod; has a Norman porch; exhibits, on the exterior and round the buttresses, many Latin inscriptions; and the chancel was restored in 1862. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, a free school, and charities £100, besides 103 acres of fuel allotment.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | North Lopham CP/AP Guiltcross RegD/PLU Norfolk AncC |
| Place names: | LOPHAM | LOPHAM NORTH | NORTH LOPHAM |
| Place: | North Lopham |
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