Loddon, Norfolk

Description
Loddon, a small market and union town and parish in Norfolk. The town stands on the Chet, a small affluent of the river Yare, 4 miles SW of Reedham station on the G.E.R., and 10 SE of Norwich. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Norwich. It consists chiefly of one long street, is a seat of petty sessions, has a weekly market on Tuesday, and fairs on Easter Monday and the Monday after 22 Nov. There is a commodious town-hall, erected in 1870, a county police station, and a fire-engine station. The workhouse of the union is in the parish of Heckingham. There is a town estate consisting of a house and a farm of 76 acres, the rent of which is devoted to ecclesiastical, parochial, and charitable purposes. Acreage of parish, 3048, population, 1169. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £183 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Norwich. The church was erected in the time of Henry VII. by Chief-Justice Hobart; is a large and handsome structure of flint in the Perpendicular style; consists of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and an embattled western tower with a peal of eight bells; and contains an ancient font, a curious old picture dating from 1496, and several ancient tombs and monuments. A church room was erected in 1886-87. There is also a Primitive Methodist chapel and a Wesleyan chapel erected in 1894.