I think Salthouse might come from where they made salt from sea water, but I might be wrong. In the Doomsday Book many of the coastal villages from Caister around the coast and along the Wash edge eg the Walpoles, Holbeach and Fleet in Lincolnshire etc had salt pans where sea water was let in at high tide and then the water allowed to evaporate and then heated -quite a complicated process and you can see about it here if interested http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-769-1/ahds/dissemination/pdf/vol38/38_134_163.pdf I have seen what looks like a likely mound of saltern waste at Mautby . I have a dim recollection of reading that the heating the water in tubs used some of the peat from the diggings which created the Norfolk Broads. The fishing industry of course used great quantities of salt to salt down fish, but meat was also salted to last through winter or to preserve the part of the carcase that could not be used immediately. My late grandmother's large earthenware salting pot stands in my house with flowers in it! My father was not over fond of salt pork and bottled runner beans which were used in the winter months when he was a child living at Fence Bank, Walpole St Peter. The butcher in my village still sells salt pork as well as the more usual salt beef. Rosie On 05/12/2011 08:41, Mike Fry wrote: > On 2011/12/05 02:28, Janice Doughty wrote: > >> What a strange name for a village, Salthouse. Though I suppose it must mean >> that it had a lot of Salthouses for salting the fish. I remember I watched >> one of Rick Stein's cooking shows on cable not long ago and he was at a >> village where they salted the fish in these old timber sheds. > Precisely! Smoking and salting fish is traditional right along the whole of the > east coast of Britain. Think Kippers and Smoked Haddock. > >> I just Googled Salthouse and saw the lovely old church, on a sloping green >> hill near the sea and then photographs of the interior. I suppose that may >> have been where Robert married Mary Ann. > Try this site:<http://www.salthousehistory.co.uk/> >