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Blakeney in Norfolk County England History and GeographyBLAKENEY, a small sea-port, town, and parish in the hundred of HOLT, county of NORFOLK, 1¼ mile (N. W.) from Clay, and 125 (N. E.) from London, containing 803 inhabitants. This place is chiefly noted for its excellent harbour, which is well situated for sheltering vessels, and has a good opening to the North Sea. It was called Snitterley in the reign of Henry III., who granted it a market; and first assumed its present name in the reign of Edward III., in the 31 st of which, a statute was passed for the regulation of the fish trade, which was then carried on to a considerable extent, and attracted a great number of German merchants, several of whom fixed their residence in the town. The harbour has been improved under an act of parliament obtained in 1817, and vcssels of considerable burden can now approach the quay. The port is under the superintendance of the custom-house establishment at Clay: the trade with the northern states of Europe is rapidly increasing; a few vessels are employed in the oyster fisheries, and the coasting trade is considerable. The number of vessels belonging to the port, according to the return made in 1828, was fifty, averaging sixty-five tons' burden. The living is a rectory with Cokethorpe, Langham-Parva, and Glanford, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £26. 13. 4. Lord Calthorpe was patron in 1824. The church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, is a spacious structure of stone and flint, with a square embattled tower which serves as a land-mark to mariners: a lofty turret rises at the north-eastern corner of the chancel, and is stated to have formerly contained a light for the guidance of vessels; the roof of the chancel is curiously vaulted with stone. There is a place of worship for Methodists. The Sunday school, near the church, was erected by Lord Calthorpe, and is conducted upon Dr. Bell's system. There are some remains, consisting principally of several fine arches, of the ancient monastery for Carmelites, founded in 1320, in which John de Baconthorpe, a learned divine and acute metaphysician, became a friar, and ultimately Provincial of the English Carmelites; he was born here, and died in London in 1346. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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