South Lopham, Norfolk

Description
Lopham, South, a village and a parish in Norfolk. The village stands 1 mile S of North Lopham, 1 E of the sources of the rivers Waveney and Little Ouse, and 5 1/2 miles SE of Harling Road station on the G.E.R., shares in the manufacture of North Lopham, and has a post office under Thetford; money order and telegraph office, Garboldisham. The parish comprises 1954 acres; population of the civil parish, 476 ; of the ecclesiastical, with North Lopham, 1074. It has a parish council of seven members. Two springs at Lopham Gate, in fens, rising on each side of the road into Suffolk, 1 mile E of the village, are the sources of the Waveney and the Little Ouse, the former flowing to Lowestoft and the latter through Thetford, Brandon, and Lynn. The road is the only way by which a person can leave Norfolk without crossing water. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of North Lopham, in the diocese of Norwich. The church is a very ancient building of flint and stone, has a beautiful Norman tower rising between the nave and the chancel restored in 1866, and contains a tablet commemorative of Elliott's charity. The rest of the church was restored in 1874. There are some valuable town lands, the rent of which is applied to ecclesiastical, educational, and charitable 1 purposes.