A small alcove in the mill house wall still exists where tradesmen would place orders and other paperwork.

Records from 1836 - 1853 show that 21/- was paid to the rector who was the encumbent.

In some scrappy notes relating to the 5th Earl of Orford it transpires that Pollard and Nevill purchasers of the Ingworth Mill in 1908 were actually the trustees of the Hon Frederick Walpole, father to Robert the 5th Earl. They were allowed to buy real estate for the trust. Orford was behind the purchase and bought it from them in 1913.
Maggie Vaughan-Lewis - 10th January 2020

In the surveyor's 1908 report it was suggested The Mill could be used for ... generating electricity, and thus illuminating Lord Orfords's Mansion House at Wolterton or the Town of Aylsham itself.

I am the great niece of George Gostling Gray who owned Sculthorpe_Mill in 1923.
According to the 1911 census George and his family lived and worked at Ingworth mill where his profession was noted as '' Miller and farmer.''
Secondly, as I read  the notes on Sculthorpe_Mill I wondered how his wife had managed to raise enough money to buy the mill. A friend trawled the censuses for me and found that Caroline Fairbairn's father (George and Caroline were married in 1870 in Alysham) was in the 1891 census Postmaster, Draper and Grocer in Oulton, having 'risen' from being a ticket collector on the 1881 census. Her mother was Abagail Kiddell from Stody near Holt. I have not yet explored further to see if she too ''had money''.
Thirdly George's father, also George Gray, is, on the 1881 census as a miller at South Repps the address being, Lower Street, The Mill, and his occupation Miller. This George Gray born in 1846 was my great grand father. My father escaped the land and went to sea when he was 15 and he never spoke of his family to me.
From being a large family, the Grays have dwindled and in my generation there only 3 of us left all with no issue!!! So I am happy to get us on record whilst I can.
Angela Gray - 1st October 2010

I have the August 1908 sale contract for the mill which does state that the tenant was Mr Gray. Apparently the vendor was Reginal Crossley Batt of Marsham Hall, a Captain in the Royal Fusiliers. The buyer was Horace John Nevill of the Junior Carlton Club  of Westminster and John Empson Toplis Pollard of Wymondham. The sale price was £1250 including the 6 acres etc. etc. A deposit of £125 was paid and the balance to be paid  29 Aug 1908 at the solicitors in London. There is (4 pages of foolscap) an interesting bit which states that 'The title shall commence with an order of then Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice dated 1st day of may 1885 under which the late Mr Frederick Howe Lindsey Bacon Windham was let into possession of the estates devised by the will of his Grandfather William Howe Windham and the purchasers shall asume that the said premises formed part of such estates and shall not require any further or other evidence of the identity of the property.............' An indenture of Settlement of 4 June 1886... states that with other other property was charged with an annual rent charge of £1000 payable to Katherine Evelsigh Batt now the wife of Robert Edward Blakeney (that name rings a bell?) during her life..... and (part of) the marriage setlement etc. It is signed by R.C. Batt and witnesses, for the deposit money only.
Alan Hulme - 25th February 2013

My grandfather, the Rev Baldwin Sapwell lived at the Mill House, Ingworth possibly from 1921-1928. I have a feeling he met my grandmother, Doris Helena (née Newham) in Ingworth. She was possibly working for a family in the village, or nearby.
They married at Christchurch, Eaton, Norwich in 1928 and then my grandfather moved to Haddiscoe and then to Rockland.
I would be very interested to have any information about the other families living in Ingworth at that time.  My grandmother moved from Nottingham to Norfolk, possibly in 1914, but without the 1921 census it is difficult to find out where she was in her spinster days!
And any information about my grandfather living at the Mill House in the 1920s would be much appreciated.
Helen Cooper - 2nd November 2020