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The new workhouse was built in 1835-6 on the Heacham Road to the west of Docking. The Poor Law Commissioners authorised an expenditure of £9,125 on construction of the building which was to accommodate 450. John Brown, the Norfolk county surveyor designed several other Norfolk workhouses at Blofield, Henstead and Yarmouth, as well as ones in Suffolk (Plomesgate, Stow), and Essex (Colchester). | The new workhouse was built in 1835-6 on the Heacham Road to the west of Docking. The Poor Law Commissioners authorised an expenditure of £9,125 on construction of the building which was to accommodate 450. John Brown, the Norfolk county surveyor designed several other Norfolk workhouses at Blofield, Henstead and Yarmouth, as well as ones in Suffolk (Plomesgate, Stow), and Essex (Colchester). | ||
==== Constituent parishes ==== | ==== Constituent parishes ==== | ||
[[Anmer,_Norfolk]], <br>[[Bagthorpe,_Norfolk]], <br>Barmer, Norfolk<br>Bircham Newton, Norfolk<br>Bircham Tofts, Norfolk<br>Brancaster, Norfolk<br>Broomsthorpe, Norfolk<br>Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk<br>Burnham Norton, Norfolk<br>Burnham Overy, Norfolk<br>Burnham Sutton, Norfolk<br>Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk<br>Burnham Ulph, Norfolk<br>Burnham Westgate, Norfolk<br>Choseley, Norfolk<br>Dersingham, Norfolk<br>Docking, Norfolk<br>East Rudham, Norfolk<br>Fring, Norfolk<br>Great Bircham, Norfolk<br>Heacham, Norfolk<br>Holme next the Sea, Norfolk<br>Houghton, Norfolk<br>Hunstanton, Norfolk<br>Ingoldisthorpe, Norfolk<br>North Creake, Norfolk<br>Ringstead, Norfolk<br>Sedgeford, Norfolk<br>Shernborne, Norfolk<br>Snettisham, Norfolk<br>South Creake, Norfolk<br>Stanhoe, Norfolk<br>Syderstone, Norfolk<br>Thornham, Norfolk<br>Titchwell, Norfolk<br>Waterden, Norfolk<br>West Rudham, Norfolk <br> <br>Later Additions: Choseley, New Hunstanton | |||
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