Little Carbrooke / Carbrook Parva / Cherebroc / Kerbroc / Little Carbrook / Weskerebroc / West Carbrook

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "Carbrook-Parva was an exempt belonging to the Commandry of St. John at Great Carbrook, to which house it was appropriated, along with Carbrook-Magna, and the church was valued with it, but the vicarage was always separate", and names "Geffery de Aldeby" as the first recorded vicar, in 1302. Blomefield (ibid.) cites the Domesday entry for 'Weskerebroc', which mentions neither church nor priest in it. In its entry for the House of Knights Hospitallers, Preceptory of Carbrooke, the VCH (Norfolk, vol. 2, 1906) notes: "In the time of Henry II [i.e., 1154-1189], Maud, countess of Clare, gave the church of St. Peter, Great Carbrooke, and of St. John Baptist, Little Carbrooke, to the Knights Hospitallers, together with the manor and other endowments. The house itself of the preceptory was dedicated to St. John Baptist, with a chapel attached. [...] Maud, countess of Clare, at the same time that she established the preceptory of Knights Hospitallers at Great Carbrooke, placed some sisters of their Order in a hospital near the church of Little Carbrooke. But very soon after their foundation, namely, in 1180, Henry II gave the order the monastery of Buckland, Somerset, on the condition that they should there place all the English Sisters Hospitallers, who had previously lived in several preceptories. Henceforth Buckland was the only English house for these sisters, those of Little Carbrooke being at once transferred there. From Little Carbrooke 13s. 4d. was paid as an annual pension to the Somerset nunnery; that sum appears in the Valor of 1535." A letter to the editor of The Gentleman's Magazine (supplement to vol. 96, pt. 1: 577) dated 5 June 1826, the correspondent, a "M. M. Duffield", writes: "There were formerly two parishes and two churches, known by the names of Great and Little Carbrook. In 1424, John Bishop of Norwich consolidated the vicarages, and the Church of Little Carbrook was then pulled down. The old churchyard is now the property of W. Robinson, esq. and lies on the road to Ovington, a little North from Mr. Robinson's house. The foundations of the Church may yet be traced."