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Lopham, North, Norfolk

Historical Description

Lopham, North, a village and a parish in Norfolk. The village stands 3 miles N of the boundary with Suffolk, 4½ SE of Harling Road station on the G.E.R, and 11 E of Thetford. It has a post and money order office under Thet-ford; telegraph office, Kenninghall. Acreage of the civil parish, 2018; population, 598; of the ecclesiastical, with South Lopham, 1074. There is a parish council with seven members. It is noted for the manufacture of linen, diaper, dowlas, and huckaback. Much of the land belongs to the Duke of Norfolk. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of South Lopham, in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £620 with residence, and must be offered when vacant to Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge. The church is a large building in the Early English style, has a Norman porch, exhibits on the exterior and round the buttresses many Latin inscriptions, and was restored in 1862 and in 1887. There are Wesleyanand Primitive Methodist chapels, some valuable town lands, and several charities.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountyNorfolk 
Ecclesiastical parishNorth Lopham St. Andrew 
HundredGuiltcross 
Poor Law unionGuiltcross 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Church Records

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Lopham, North from the following:


Newspapers and Periodicals

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Visitations Heraldic

The Visitations of Norfolk 1563, 1589, and 1613 is available on the Heraldry page.

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