In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Runham like this:
RUNHAM, a village and a parish in Flegg district, Norfolk. The village stands near the river Bure, at the Runham-Swim ferry, 4½ miles W N W of Yarmouth r.station; and was once a market-town. The parish includes a detached portion, called New Runham or Vauxhall, immediately adjoining Yarmouth, and on which fish-offices, manure-works, and the terminus of the Norwich and Yarmouth railway are situated; and it was re-turned in the census of 1851 as including also the extra-parochial tract of Nowhere. ...
Post-town, Filby, under Norwich. Acres, with Nowhere, 1, 715. Real property, £4, 413. Pop., exclusive of Nowhere, 396. Houses, 84. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £207.* Patron, the Bishop of Norwich. The church is old, and was recently restored. There are a national school and a poors'allotment of 27 acres.
Runham through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Runham, in Great Yarmouth and Norfolk | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/3943
Date accessed: 16th April 2024
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