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This
little cottage is attached to a large house which was once the
"Robin Hood" Inn in Guild Street, Little Walsingham.
The pub was owned by one Richard Rawston (born in 1812) and
Richard's sister, Mary Ann Rawston, had married tailor Robert
Pomfrey from Hingham in 1843. The Pomfreys were living in this
cottage in 1851, and my great-grandfather, Edmund Pomfrey, was
born here in 1843. The Rawston family were well known in Walsingham
in the mid-19th century, being publicans, builders, carpenters
and wheelwrights, as well as owning small farms. However, the
name seems to have died out in the area. Robert Pomfrey and
his family moved to Langham in the 1860s. |
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