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Warham Mills
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Warham got its name from being close to a river, and a watery place or Ham.
Francis Blomfield's detailed history of Norfolk, mentions two mills in the parish of Warham and apart from his details, no other records have so far been found.

Walter Giffard had half a carucate of land, which belonged to two freeman, who held it in King Edward's reign, under Gert, when there was a borderer, and two carucates of land also, but at the survey a carucate and a half; valued as before at 16s.
Gert was (as I take it) a younger son of the great Earl Godwine, brother to King Harold, slain with him at the battle of Hastings; and on his death, granted to Walter Giffard, created Earl of Buckingham, by the Conqueror.
In this town there were also resident 19 socmen, with 2 carucates of land, and the moiety of a mill belonging to the manor of Well, held by Ketel, before the Conquest, and by Aldit, at the survey, who was lord also of Well, out of which Ketel had been ejected, (as I shall there observe,) wherein it was valued, &c.
Francis Blomefield

In the reign of Richard II. Sir Stephen de Hales held it, who dying s. p. Elizabeth, daughter and heir of his brother Thomas Hales, brought it by marriage to William Rokewode, sen. and so to William Rokewode, Esq his son, by whose daughter and coheir Agnes, it came to Sir Nicholas Appleyard, whose descendant John Appleyard, Esq. in the 3d and 4th of Philip and Mary, passed this manor of WarhamHales, with many messuages and tofts, 2 water mills, 400 acres of land, 40 of pasture, 200 of moor, 200 of marsh, 20 of wood, 200 of heath, and 10s. rent, with a foldcourse in this town, Wells, &c. and the advowson of the church of Warham, to Ralph Symonds, Esq.
Francis Blomefield

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