NORFOLK PUBLIC HOUSES

Found in S&P documentation covering the years 1837 - 1851 as the SOAP HOUSE

Steward & Patteson supplied the house from 1837 to 1844/5

Address does not specify FORNCETT St PETER or St MARY

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The Parish records of Forncett St Peter contain papers dated 1865 to 1889
containing reference to the the purchase of the  NORFOLK ARMS `alias the SOPE HOUSE'.

Thanks to Ken Moore 08.01.07
for Parish Records update.

I had always understood that the spelling was 'Sope'.
The location was at Forncett St Peter, not far from St Peter's church,
just to the north of the turning to Forncett End (approx TM164928).

I only know this because I used to live at the Rectory (my father was the
rector) and it was something that we talked about - that there used to be a
public house at the end of the drive called 'The Sope House'.