52953. This record now incorporates record 52964. THE SETTLEMENT OF REEPHAM, THOUGH IT SUFFERED NO CLEAR OR PERMANENT REDUCTION THROUGH THE MIDDLE AGES, HAD SO DECLINED BY C.1700 THAT BOTH THE AISLES OF THE CHURCH WERE REMOVED. EXPANSION HAS OBLITERATED SLIGHT EARTHWORKS THAT WERE VISIBLE ON EARLY AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS AND LESSENED THE POSSIBILITY OF UNDERSTANDING ITS EARLY MORPHOLOGY. THIS MAY HAVE BEEN BASED UPON TWO NEARLY PARALLEL EAST-WEST STREETS, ONE NORTH-EAST, THE OTHER SOUTH-WEST OF THE CHURCH, WHOSE MISALIGNMENT CAUSED A SERIES OF SHARP- ANGLED TURNS, INCREASED BY THE DEVELOPMENT OF A BACK LANE IN THE SOUTH-EAST AS A THROUGH ROAD. {1}{2} THE STEADY GROWTH OF REEPHAM IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY THAT MORE THAN TREBLED THE POPULATION GROWTH OF THAT PERIOD OF AGRICULTURAL PROSPERITY IN A MANNER TYPICAL OF AN 'OPEN' VILLAGE, AND WAS REFLECTED IN 'BRICKS AND MORTAR', BOTH SECULAR AND ECCLESIASTICAL. {1} THIS INCLUDES THE VICARAGE WHICH IS A SMALL BOX WITH AN OVERHANGING CORNICE, BY JOHN HARTLEY OF LINCOLN 1838. {4}