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These villages make up the deanery of Depwade, which contained 23 parishes, and was taxed at 16s.
Deans Of Depwade
collated by the bishops of norwich.
- 1216, Laurence the dean.
- 1314, Ralf de Upgate of Tharston, priest.
- 1323, Master Robert de Stratton, subdeacon.
- 1334, Sir John de Hovedene, priest.
- 1350, John de Heygate of Trunch, fellow of Trinity Hall in Cambridge.
- Thomas de Ravenser, resigned.
- 1359, William de Daventre, he changed for Anderby in Lincolnshire, with Ravenser.
- 1359, Roger de Haldenby, clerk.
- 1375, Robert de Topcliff, Shavelyng:
- 1380, John de Roseworth.
- 1392, John atte Brigge of Salle, clerk.
- 1393, John Ram.
- 1405, Alan Ram.
- 1422, Thomas Ash.
- 1431, Thomas Holdeyn.
- 1447, Sir Ralf Somerby, chaplain, who got this consolidated to Humbleyard deanery, see p. 2.
- 1496, Mr. Will. Portland, A. M.
- 1498, Mr. Tho. Wolsey, A.M. the last rural dean of these deaneries.
This hundred being so near Norwich, it hath not any place where there is a market now kept. The soil is rich and well enclosed, and hath much wood and timber in it, but the roads (as a necessary consequence of good land) are dirty and bad.
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