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Speculation on the origins of Reepham, including why does Reepham stand where it does? Why is it so different from the surrounding parishes? Why did its churchyard contain three churches?

Original (not scanned) and tracing by Kate Nightingale

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Whitwell, showing Hackford and Whitwell Halls, Ordnance Survey, 1906, scale 1:2500, Norfolk Sheet XXXVIII 9, surveyed in 1891-94, revised in 1905.

Ordnance Survey 1906, second edition, scale 1:2500, Norfolk Sheet XXXVIII 10, surveyed in 1891-94, revised in 1905

A page of sample extracts from a complete digital copy of Whitwell tithe map & apportionments. The document was begun in 1844. Areas of land on the map are numbered and a list of landowners shows the land they owned & the names of occupiers.…

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Notes on tanning and tanneries in Reepham from before 1603 to 1905 : photographs of Whitwell Hall : maps of Whitwell Common and Whitwell Hall : further notes about tanned leather in Warehouse.

Background to The Star, a public house on Whitwell Street, with details about its landlords William Morris and Frederick Watson.

An account of Tony Hawes' first job as a junior clerk in Barclay's Bank, Reepham, in the 1950s. Brief mention is made of the people who ran the shops in the Market Place, e.g. Ned & Marjorie Gibbs, the Chapmans, Bert Hall, Donald (?) Watson at the…

Locomotive No. 56 at Whitwell Station.

Sepia postcard of Whitwell Station showing platforms & signal box, possibly 1911.

Whitwell Station in disrepair. The station, which was on the former Midland & Great Northern Railway, has now been restored.

Details of the memorial inscriptions of the cemetery on Whitwell Road, Reepham. Includes plans of the burial ground and an index to names, places & occupations recorded on the memorials. The introduction is included here.

An article on the history and management of Whitwell Common, now a Site of Special Scientific Interest near Reepham

Calendar of families owning or occupying Whitwell Hall beginning with Augustine Messenger in 1659.

Preparatory H/W Notes in K Nightingale [File 10]

Undated booklet describing the situation of Whitwell Hall and the activities and facilities available for educational groups at the country centre.

Tracing of Whitwell Hall and Grounds from the copy of a deed 19 February 1883, recording the sale of Glebe land at Whitwell Hall by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to Robert Leamon.
This is of interest as the Chapel of St Nicholas is mentioned in…

Postcard showing a view of Whitwell Hall before the brick extension was built at the side.

A history of Whitwell Hall and Estate from Anglo Saxon times to the present (1994).

Twentieth century photograph of the hall. Currently an educational establishment offering camping & open air experiences to school pupils.

Drawing of the hall, once the home of the Leamon family.
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