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NORFOLK-L RE: ?Workhouse at Sheringham. The Workhouse in Erpingham, Norfolk. [Up to 1834] [After 1834] [Staff] [Inmates] [Records] [Bibliography] [Links] Up to 1834 North Walsham had a parish workhouse which, by the 1770s, could hold 80 inmates.

The Workhouse in Erpingham, Norfolk

In 1786, a new workhouse was built, perhaps in the vicinity of what is now Workhouse Loke. In 1792, ten years after the passing of Gilbert's Act, the Oulton Gilbert Union of six parishes (Banningham, Blickling, Colby, Erpingham, Itteringham, and Oulton) was formed. Its workhouse at Oulton, three-and-a-half miles to the north-west of Aylsham, was leased from Lady Sheffield and was originally a farmhouse and stood about a mile to the south-east of Oulton church, was converted from an old farmhouse at a cost of £1,100. Oulton workhouse site, 1886. In 1805, the parishes of Gimingham, Knapton, Mundesley, Overstrand, North Repps, South Repps, Sidestrand, Trimingham, and Trunch formed a Gilbert union and erected a House of Industry at Gimingham.

Sheringham former parish workhouse, 2005. © Peter Higginbotham. After 1834 Staff Inmates. Workh-sherinham.

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All entries for the name UPCHER held within the Gravestone Photographic Resource. Upper Sheringham War Memorial.JPG - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 1891 Census Name Index - Upper Sheringham, Norfolk. A postcard from Sheringham. Upper Sheringham Album. Norfolk Churches. All Saints, Upper Sheringham Incidentally, I joked to the historian David Starkey, with whom I have a small acquantance, that Burnham Market had become Islington-sur-mer.

Norfolk Churches

He responded, rather vociferously, "no it's not, it's much worse than that! It is Notting Hill-plage! " which was amusing, the vociferousness arising no doubt from the fact that Doctor Starkey lives in Islington himself. But all of this means little to Upper Sheringham, for I doubt that many of the visitors to either group of resorts find their way up here, or that the tower of All Saints ever feels the temptation to peep over the hillcrest to see what is going on below.

As with several churches on this coast, the money was abundant here to provide a major rebuilding on the eve of the Black Death, and so there is a fine tower, and All Saints has the clerestory of alternating arched and quatrefoil windows made famous by Cley, a few miles off. Norfolk Mills - Upper Sheringham post mill. Upper Sheringham. Coordinates: Upper Sheringham is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.[1] The village is 26.8 miles (43.1 km) North-north-west of Norwich, 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Cromer and 132 miles (212 km) north-north-east of London.

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The village is 1.2 miles (1.9 km) from the town of Sheringham. The nearest railway station is at Sheringham for the Bittern Line which runs between Sheringham, Cromer and Norwich. The nearest airport is Norwich International Airport. Nearby road connections are the A149 [2] King's Lynn to Great Yarmouth road to the north of the village and the A148 King's Lynn to Cromer road just to the south.

Description[edit] The name Sheringham is of Scandinavian origin and has the meaning The Ham of Scira’s people.[3] It is thought that Scira may have been a Viking warlord who was given the land as a reward for his performance in battle. References[edit] Gallery[edit] The war memorial located at the church of All SaintsThe reservoir.