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LOPHAM (SOUTH), a village and a parish in Guiltcross district, Norfolk. The village stands 1 mile S of North Lopham, 1 mile E of the sources of the rivers Waveney and Little Ouse, and 5½ SE of East Harling r. station; shares in the manufacture of North Lopham; and has a...office under Thetford. The parish comprises 1,937 acres. Real property, £6,129. Pop. in 1851,731; in 1861,630. Houses, 154. The property is much subdivided. Two springs at Lopham Gate, in fens, 1 mile E of the village, are the sources of the Waveney and the Little Ouse. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of North Lopham, in the diocese of Norwich. The church is very old; has a beautiful Norman tower, rising between the nave and the chancel, restored in 1866; and contains a tablet commemorative of Elliott's charity. A school was built in 1863, at a cost of £800; and there are charities £127, besides 126 acres of allotment.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | South Lopham CP/AP Guiltcross RegD/PLU Norfolk AncC |
| Place names: | LOPHAM | LOPHAM SOUTH | SOUTH LOPHAM |
| Place: | South Lopham |
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