Description
Rudham, West, a village and a parish in Norfolk, 2 1/2 miles SW from East Rudham station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway, and 8 W from Fakenham. Post town, Swaffham; money order and telegraph office. East Rudham. Acreage of the civil parish, 2918; population, 420; of the ecclesiastical, with East Rudham and Broomsthorpe, 1171. The Marquis Townshend and the Marquis of Cholmondeley are lords of the manor and chief landowners. The living is a vicarage, annexed to East Rudham, in the diocese of Norwich, in the gift of the Marquis Townshend. The church, which was restored in 1891, is an ancient building of flint in the Decorated style. There is a Methodist New Connexion chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
