Docking, Norfolk Poor Law Union: Difference between revisions

==== History ====

The earliest workhouse provision was that at Dersingham formed from neighbouring cottages<br>Under the Gilbert act in 1783 a workhouse was established at South Creake. <br>Gilbert's Act of 1782 allowed groups of parishes to set up a common workhouse for the old, the sick and the infirm. This provided a much cheaper procedure than was involved in promoting a Local Act.  

Docking Poor Law Union was formed on 1st August 1835.  

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).  

[[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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