Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SHIPDHAM

SHIPDHAM, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Mitford district, Norfolk. The village stands 3¾ miles SW by W of Yaxham r. station, and 4½ SW by S of East Dereham; was once a market town; and has a post-office‡ under Thetford, and a stock fair on 30 June. The parish comprises 4,560 acres. Real property, £18,028. Pop., 1,644. Houses, 382. The property is much sub-divided. The manor belongs to W. Birch, Esq. Hill House is the seat of H. B. Cannell, Esq. A hall was built here, by a bishop of Ely, in the time of Henry III.; and a hermitage of Thomas à Becket was here about 1490. The living is a rectory in the dioceses of Norwich. Value, £1,240.* Patron, the Rev. G.Bailey. The church was extensively altered in 1845. There are three dissenting chapels, an endowed school with £70 a year, fuel allotments £125, and other charities £118.—The sub-district contains seven parishes. Acres, 11,349. Pop., 2,777. Houses, 632.


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

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Feature Description: "a village, a parish, and a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Shipdham AP/CP       Shipdham SubD       Norfolk AncC
Place: Shipdham

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