Pulham Market

Description in White's Directory, 1883

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PULHAM ST MARY MAGDALEN, or Pulham Market, is a considerable village on the Waveney branch railway, about a mile north from Pulham St Mary the Virgin on an eminence 4½ miles N.W. of Harleston, and was formerly noted for the manufacture of hats, dornocks, coverlets &c. Its parish is in Depwade union, Earsham hundred and petty sessional division, Harleston county court district, Ipswich bankruptcy court district, Harleston polling district of South Norfolk, Redenhall rural deanery, and Norfolk archdeaconry. It had 1127 inhabitants in 1881, including 203 in the Depwade Union workhouse, which is situated in this parish. It has a rateable value of £4217. The parish includes many scattered houses, and 2956A. lR. 19P. of land, of which the commons called Bush Green, Colegate End, and Gresham Green, were enclosed in 1838-39. It is nearly all in George Copeman, Esq.'s manor of Pulham (fines arbitrary), and anciently had a weekly market, and a cattle fair used to be held on the third Thursday in May. A small estate here is held by the service of blowing a horn at the opening of the manor court, and 7 acres by being 'the lord's hangman,' but the duties, of the latter office have long been obsolete. Lord Waveney, George Leggett, Esq., G. F. Bevan, Esq., W. H. Cole, Esq., and others, have estates here. The Hall, anciently a seat of a younger branch of the Percy family was rebuilt by the late J. Crickmore, Esq. and is now the property of George Leggett, Esq., who occupies it. The CHURCH is a large structure of mixed architecture, chiefly Perpendicular, and consists of a lofty nave with aisles, a chancel, and a tower with six bells The roof is of carved wood, and part of the nave-roof is painted and gilt, and evidently ancient. There is a piscina in the chancel, and another in one of the aisles. Hare are handsome mural monuments of the Rosier, Stanhawe, Cole, Roope, Palgrave, and Page families. The rectory, valued at £646, is in the patronage of the Crown, and in the incumbency of the Rev. Spencer Fellows, M.A,, who has a commodious residence, which was enlarged and new fronted in 1861. The NATIONAL SCHOOL was erected in 1852, at a cost of £352, and is attended by more than 100 children. The Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have each a small chapel here, the former built in 1862. There are two cemeteries in the parish, one belonging to the Church and the other to the Dissenters They were formed in 1860, when the churchyard was closed. The Town Estate, which was vested in trust for the poor as early as the 16th century, consists of two farmhouses and 66 acres of land, let for £113, and seven cottages, let for £27 a year. Out of these rents £30 are appropriated to the church expenses, and the remainder is equally divided between the school and poor.

DEPWADE UNION comprises an area of 73,000 acres, and had 23,583 inhabitant, in 1881. Their average annual expenditure, from 1832 to 1835, was £24,000. (For present expenditure, see page 42.)

The following is an enumeration of the parishes in the Union, showing their territorial extent, the population in 1881, and the present rateable value:-

The Union Workhouse was built in 1836-7, at a cost of £8240. It has room for 400 inmates, but has rarely so many. Clerk – J, Furness, St. Stephen's Chambers, Norwich. Medical Officers – Messrs. C. A. Owans, Stratton; J. L. Currie, Bungay; H. F. Howard, New Buckenham; W. Pratt, Pulham; F. R. Rose, Diss; J. Candler, Harleston; and H Hardwicke, Saxlingham. School Attendance Officer – T. W. Garrood. Relieving Officers and School Enquiry Officers – Messrs. Edgar Shaw, Redenhall; George B. Mann, Dickleburgh; and George T.Myhill, Forncett St. Peter. Superintendent Registrar – J. Hotson, Long Stratton.Registrars of Marriages and Deaths – Henry Starr, Long Stratton ; and the three relieving officers. Registrars of Marriages – Messrs. Edgar Shaw, Redenhall; G.T. Myhill, Forncett St. Peter; and F.R. Rose, Diss. Master of Workhouse – William J. Hardwick. Matron – Mrs Emma S. M. Hardwick. No schoolmaster. Mixed school in future. Schoolmistress – Emma Kate Brock. Depwade Rural Sanitary Authority – Clerk, J, Furness; Medical Officer of Health, J. Candler; Inspector of Nuisances, T. W. Garrood, Tasburgh, Long Stratton.

POST OFFICE. at Henry William Churchyard's. Letters via Harleston, arrive at 8 a.m. and depart at 5.15 p.m. This is a Telegraph Office.

Additions and Corrections

[From White's Directory 1883 page 15, referring to the entries on pages 633 and 634 which are reproduced above.]

PULHAM ST. MARY MAGDALEN, page 633, line 12, take out 'Lord Waveney;' line 24, insert 'church and' at end of line. Page 634, for 'W. Pratt,' read 'L. Paulley.' In Directory, take out 'Alexander Mr.,' 'Alger Henry,' 'Edwards George,' 'Seago Edward,' 'Tewsley [sic] Mr George.' For 'Berrett Robert,' read 'Borrett Robert;' for Brown 'George,' read 'Daniel;' add J.P. to 'Fellows Rev. S.;' for 'Pratt W.,' read 'Paulley Legge;' for 'Rope' James, John, William, read 'Roope' in each case; for Waller Miss 'Mary,' read 'Ellen;' for 'Wharten,' read 'Wharton.'

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