OS Grid Reference: 52°50'N 0°44'E
Name Origin: Old English Tatessete Tathere's dwelling.
LANDS OF WILLIAM OF WARENNE
The Hundred of BROTHERCROSS
In TATESSETE Rainer holds 1 carucate of land, which Toki held before 1066. Always 15 smallholders; 1 slave. Always 1 plough in lordship; 1 men's plough; meadow, 1 acre; 2 mills. Then 1 cob, now 2. 5 head of cattle; 6 pigs. Then 40 sheep, now 80. 2 churches, 40 acres.
Also 14 Freemen belong to this manor, at 69 acres. Always 6 smallholders; 2 ploughs; meadow, 1 acre. Value then 10s; now 60s.
It has ½ league in length and 4 furlongs in width, tax of 13d.
History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk, White, 1845:
TATTERSETT, or GATESEND parish, on the banks of the Tat rivulet 6 miles W. of Fakenham, has 160 inhabitants, and 1,757 acres of land, belonging to Sir Chas. Chad, Bart., who occasionally resides here at Pinkney Hall, an ancient mansion, formerly a seat of the Drurys, but his chief seat is Thursford Hall. He is lord of the manor, and patron of the rectory, valued in K.B. at £6 6s. 8d., and in 1831 at £685, with that of Tattersett annexed to it, in the incumbency of the Hon. and Rev. A. A. Turnour. The Church (All Saints) is a small fabric with a tower. The poor have two cottages let by Diana Drury, and repaired by Sir Chas. Chad. They have £2 12s. a year, left by John Tinkler in 1713; and the interest of £50 left by Samuel Nutt, in 1762. DIRECTORY: - Wm. Brown, Nicholas Frohawk, Dunham Green, and Robt. Withers, farmers; John Bridges, blacksmith; John Ellison, shopkeeper; Chas. Phillippo, beer seller; and Henry Waller, wheelwright.
The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, ed J.H.F.Brabner, 1895:
Tattersett, or Gatesend, a parish in Norfolk, 6 miles W of Fakenham station on the G.E.R., and 1½ mile from Raynham Park station on the Midland and Great Northern Joint railway. It has a post office under Swaffham; money order and telegraph office, East Budham. Acreage, 1810; population of the civil parish, 160; of the ecclesiastical with Tatterford, 252; The living is a rectory, annexed to Tatterford. The church is a small but ancient building of flint in the Perpendicular style.
Associated Family: Langley
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