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Category: Towler

Samuel & Catherine Hilling of Low Common

Posted on January 1, 2022October 8, 2023 by Heather Etteridge

Jeffrey Towler owned several properties in Great Ellingham at the end of the eighteenth century. He leased two dwellings together with 22 acres of land to Samuel Hilling. These properties were at the end of the lane which we know today as Swamp Lane. Swamp Lane The above extract a plan of c.1802 clearly shows…

Sale of Reversion or Remainder in fee expectant on the decease of Widow

Posted on September 1, 2021October 8, 2023 by Heather Etteridge

1818 Auction of Freehold Property On the 28th February, 1818, the Norfolk Chronicle published the notice of a forthcoming auction of premises in Great Ellingham. The auction would take place at four o’clock on the 12th March, 1818, at the Crown Public House in Great Ellingham. The premises appeared in two lots: Whereabouts was the…

Sixth Footpath called ‘Church Path’ discontinued in the early c18th

Posted on November 1, 2020October 8, 2023 by Heather Etteridge

The Inclosures Map for Great Ellingham of 1802 shows four connecting footways weaving their way through various inclosures of land between Long Street and the road leading to the town of Attleborough. However, these four footpaths (together with ten others), were ‘put by and discontinued ‘ by the Inclosure (Great Ellingham) Act of 1799. Extract…

Fourteen Footways Discontinued by the Commissioners

Posted on November 1, 2020October 8, 2023 by Heather Etteridge

Before the Great Ellingham Inclosure Act of 1799, there were several paths threading their way through the village. No doubt many of these footways were in constant use by the villagers to get from one part of the village to another, or to travel to the adjacent villages or towns. Some of these ancient paths…

‘Highly Respected’ John Warren dies in Little Ellingham

Posted on October 1, 2020October 8, 2023 by Heather Etteridge

Death of John Warren Great Ellingham born John Warren died within a month of his 83rd birthday on the 7th April, 1897. He was buried in the churchyard at Little Ellingham. Little Ellingham Parish Church. Photograph taken May 2020 According to a report in the Eastern Daily Press published on the following Saturday, the 10th…

A House Fit for a ‘King’

Posted on August 23, 2020October 8, 2023 by Heather Etteridge

Great Ellingham is fortunate to have several fine listed buildings, with many of them situate in what today is known as Church Street. British Listed Buildings website describes Mill Farmhouse in Great Ellingham as a Grade II late seventeenth century timber framed farmhouse, on a flint plinth with rendered clay walls. The farmhouse also has…

Great Ellingham ‘Born and Bred’

Posted on May 12, 2020October 9, 2023 by Heather Etteridge

Mary Ann Rivett nee Warren. c.1810 to 1888. Photograph courtesy of Pauline Bezant Mary Ann Rivett, the wife of Jonathan Rivett, was very much a ‘Great Ellingham girl’. She lived in the village for her entire life. Warren Family Baptised in the Church of St James on the 28th January 1810, Mary Ann was the…

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