Extract from 1906 Ordnance Survey Map. Second Edition. Surveyed in 1881. Revised 1904. Courtesy Martin Jeffery Holly Croft Farm is a delightful property in Bow Street. Tenement ‘Newmans’ The origins of the present farmhouse may well have been a tenement called Newmans. This tenement is referred to in the historical deeds to the property at…
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Bow Street Farm Sale: Dunnett ‘cuts a deal’ with Whellum & Pike
In 1908, John Whellum of Paragon Street, Norwich, agreed to sell his modest farm in Bow Street, Great Ellingham. Extract from 1906 Ordnance Survey Map. Second Edition. Surveyed in 1881. Revised 1904. Courtesy Martin Jeffery Whellum had owned the farm for some 30 years, having inherited the property from his late uncle William Wretham. He…
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…