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Elmham (North) in Norfolk County England History and GeographyELMHAM (NORTH), a parish in the hundred of LAUNDITCH, county of NORFOLK, 5¼ miles (N.) from East Dereham, containing 1046 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £13. 15., and in the patronage of R. Mills, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, has at the west end a quadrangular tower with a slender spire one hundred and nineteen feet high. The kingdom of the East Angles, which from its first conversion by Felix had been under one bishop, was, about 673, divided into two dioceses, when one of the episcopal seats was fixed at Dunwich, and the other in this ancient town, which had a succession of ten bishops, till the martyrdom of Humbert by the Danes, in 870. The two sees were again united about 950, and the episcopal chair transferred to Thetford in 1075, and soon afterwards to Norwich. The site of the cathedral is still discernible, and near it are some old wells. Herbert, first bishop of Norwich, rebuilt the parish church, but the present seems to be of later date: from the altar ran a subterranean passage to the palace, situated on a neighbouring hill, which Bishop Spencer, in the turbulent reign of Richard II., converted into a castle, and surrounded with a double intrenchment, the inner moat enclosing the keep; its remains are now almost obscured by thorns and briars. Not far from the village, numerous Roman urns and coins were discovered in 1710; and in a field called Broomclose, urns of various sizes and colours, containing bones, ashes, glass, divers brass instruments, and a silver seal-ring with an eagle holding a thunderbolt, have been found. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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