The construction of Deopham Green Airfield included the demolition of several buildings. This included the cottages at Stalland Common. Left: Extract from 1906 Ordnance Survey Map. Second Edition. Surveyed in 1881. Revised 1904. Courtesy Martin JefferyRight: Extract from a map attached to Auction Particulars for Hawhill Farm Great Ellingham dated September 1920Original document held at…
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Town Green at the beginning of the 18th Century
Extract from 1802 Map of Great Ellingham. Russell James Colman Plans. Norfolk Record Office Cat. Ref. C/Ca 1/84. All rights reserved Norfolk Record Office. With kind permission of NRONorth is to the top of the map The ‘triangle’ of Town Green will be familiar to those living in the village today as it was to…
George Cady settles his late Brother’s Debt to John Barnard
When George Cady’s brother William died in the February of 1790, George inherited his brother’s real estate in Great Ellingham. This land and property had once belonged to the brothers’ father, Thomas Cady. The black dot on the above extract from the 1802 Great Ellingham Inclosure Map shows the position of Cady’s property in Bow…
William Cady inherits Property in Bow Street
On the death of his father, Thomas Cady, in 1764, William Cady inherited all his father’s real estate in Great Ellingham. This included: one acre of land lying in Great Ellingham between the lands late of Issac Harvey before that James Harvey in part towards the west and the lands now or late of George…
Thomas Cady’s Purchase of Premises in Bow Street
Extract Mortgage Deed 8th August 1751 Thomas Cady to John Oddin. Courtesy Roger Banks Holly Croft Farm is one of the delightful older properties in Bow Street. The origins of this charming farmhouse may be as early as the seventeenth century – if not earlier. In this blog, we look at Thomas Cady and his…
1731 Warren & Thurlow Mortgage Property in the street called Engate
History of a Small Farm in Bow Street This is one of a series of blogs which tells the history of a small farm in Bow Street, Great Ellingham. We begin at 1731. Mortgage Extract from the 1731 Indenture of Mortgage between Ann Warren, Thomas Thurlow & John Amyas. Courtesy Roger Banks On the 13th…
Thomas Margetson’s Cottage in Watton Road
We are fortunate that the Norfolk Record Office holds an abundance of documentation relating to Great Ellingham. This includes paperwork from the ‘Great Ellingham Inclosures’ c.1799 and a map dated 1802. According to the Great Ellingham Inclosure Statement of Claims, Thomas Beales claimed: – One Cottage and Garden occupied by Thomas Margetson – One Barn…
John Whellum inherits his Uncle’s Bow Street Farm
At the time of his death in 1870, Great Ellingham born William Wretham owned several freehold and leasehold properties in Norwich, including his home in Paragon Street, Norwich. Extract from Second Edition, 1906. Norfolk, sheet LXXXV S.W. Courtesy Ray & Maureen Beales Wretham also owned a modest farm (or smallholding) in Bow Street, which he…
Jeremiah Fielding sells Windmill & Emigrates
Mill House which replaced an earlier dwelling with the Mill behind. Postcard postmarked 1905. Tower Windmill made from Local Bricks The brick tower windmill standing in what is now Church Street, Great Ellingham, was erected by Jeremiah Fielding c.1849. The bricks were made locally at the brick kiln in Hingham Road. It has also been…
Marital Disagreement results in a Court Appearance
Extract from 1906 Ordnance Survey Map. Second Edition. Surveyed in 1881. Author’s Collection The above extract from a 1906 Ordnance Survey Map shows the location of the Prince of Wales Public House along the Watton Road in Great Ellingham. Norfolk News report on the Court Case The report of a court case appearing in the…