REPPS (SOUTH), a parish in the northern division
of the hundred of ERPINGHAM, county of NORFOLK,
4 miles (N. N. W.) from North Walsham, containing
656 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's
books at £16, and in the patronage of the King, as
Duke of Lancaster. The church is dedicated to St.
James. On a lofty eminence about a mile from the village
are the remains of an ancient beacon, whence Norwich
and Yarmouth are discernible on a clear day.