Wereham,Norfolk
Lewis Topographical Dictionary of England 1831
Wereham, a parish in the hundred of Clackclose, county of Norfolk, 1 3/4 mile (N.W.) from Stoke-Ferry, containing 546 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, with that of Wretton annexed, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, endowed with £16 per annum private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Edward R. Pratt, esq. The church is dedicated to St. Margaret. A Benedictine priory, in honour of St. Winnaloe, or St. Guenolo, was founded here, about the beginning of the reign of John, by the Earl of Clare, as a cell to the abbey of Mounstroll(in France); it was given, in 1321, to the abbey of West Dereham, and at the dissolution had a revenue of £7. 2. 8.
