UpWell Holding Inc history

6) It was unfortunate that soon after he wrote, Upwell was one of the places most severely attacked by the 1832 cholera epidemic, 67 persons dying here and in Nordelph in less than two months. (fn.

By 1837 these three charities, with a portion of Foxe's charity (see below), had been merged by the parish officials into a general fund, amounting to about £120 a year.

186) By 1847 sufficient funds had been accumulated to build the school, and also some almshouses, and to rebuild the Anglican chapel. (fn.

W. G. Townley, Rector of Upwell, who as brother of the lord of the manor and occupier of Beaupré Hall was almost as powerful in Outwell as in his own parish, was instrumental in establishing the Outwell National School in 1848.

135) In 1862 it became parochial, under the Upwell-cum-Welney Division Act of sixteen years earlier. (fn.

In 1863 the church was severely restored, the east end of the chancel being practically rebuilt, largely with the old materials, and new roofs provided for the chancel and north aisle.

In 1864 the Norfolk share in the Foxe and Lamb charities consisted of two of the various houses and about 30 acres of land, producing £100 a year. (fn.

A Gas Company was formed in 1867. (fn.

Another school, which served also as a mission room, was opened in 1874.

178) From 1875 it was leased to the newly formed Upwell School Board. (fn.

The school was closed in 1878 owing to a controversy over the organization of the Outwell charities.

As elsewhere in Marshland, the development of market-gardens and small-holdings led to an increase in population and great pressure on the schools. It was reopened in 1881 when by a scheme made by the Charity Commissioners in that year about half of the £69 arising annually from the consolidated charities was assigned to education.

The Upwell Salvation Army hall dates from 1883, but is not now used for its original purpose.

174) In 1909 the Upwell St Peter's Board School was enlarged by the Norfolk County Council, at a cost of about £1,500, to take 400 children. (fn.

In 1910 the County Council opened a school for 30 children in a temporary building about half-way along Euximoor Drove.

In 1291 the total value of the Ramsey property in Outwell and Upwell from rents and fisheries was £1913s.

The situation, however, was eased when the secondary school was completed, and from 1939 St Peter's School has been reorganized for 120 'junior mixed' and 120 infants.