DIRECTOR V, J . STOW-BEUON, 469 Whitsuntide. Stow Hall, the seat of Lieut.-Col. Sir Pest & Telegraph Office, Stow Bridge.-Mrs. Mary How-. Thomas Leigh Hare hart. D.L., J.P. who is lord of the lett, sub-postmistress. Letters received from Down­ manor, was originally purchased in 1553 by Sir Nicholas ham at 6.45 a.m. & 1.30 p.m.; dispatched at 10.35 Hare knt. rebuilt in 1589 by Nicholas Hare esq. his a.m. & 7·5 p.m. & on sundays 10.55 a.m. The nearest grandson, at a cost of £4o,ooo, and again rebuilt in money order office is at Downham, 4 miles distant 1873 by the late Sir Thomas Hare bart. and is a mansion Post Office, .-Mrs. Sarah Whybrow, in the Elizabethan style, standing in a beautiful park, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive from Downham at 7 with extensive pleasure grounds attached. The principal a.m.; dispatched at 10.10 a.m. & 6.30 p.m. week days landowners are Sir T. L. Hare bart. and John Edwards only. N ordelph, 2! miles distant, is the nearest and Joseph Morton esqrs. The soil is peat and gravel; money order & telegraph office subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats and Wall Letter Box, Stow corner, cleared at 10.40 a.m. & potatoes. By the Divided Parishes Act 633 acres of 7.40 p.m.; sundays, II.IO a.m land were transferred from to this Pub!ic Elementary Schools. parish, and by the same Act 488a. 2r. 3P· were trans­ ferred from Stow to Downham; the total acreage is Now governed by a board of managers appointed partly now 6,378 acres of land, 21 of water, 18 of tidal water by the County Council & Parish Council Stow Bridge, formerly St. Paul's National School, situated and 10 of foreshore; rateable value, £10,999; the popu­ on the Westhead road, was erected in 1872, at the sole lation in I9II was 1,347. expense of the late Sir Thomas Hare bart. for 185 Parish Clerk, David Charlton. children; average attendance, 8o; Charles George Hill, Post Office, Stow.-Thomas Bell, sub-postmaster. Let­ master ters anive from Downham at 6.30 a.m. ; dispatched Harroway Drove (mixed), built in 188o, for Bo children; at 7 p.m. & on sunday 11.35 a.m. Down ham, 2 miles average attendance, 104; Reginald H. Wood, master distant, is the nearest money order & telegraph office Railway Station (Stow Bridge), Herbert Feetham, sta­ tion master

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Digby Fredc. farmer, Barroway Drove Licquorice Thos. farmr.Bardolph Fen Beart Charles, Westhead Edwards Chas. farmer, Westerby frm Morton J oseph, farmer & landowner, de Putron Rev. John Percy M.A. Filby Arthur, farmer Newbridge farm Vicarage Flatman George, farmer, Stow Bridge Morton Joseph, jun.farmer,Fences fm Hare Lt.-Col. Sir Thomas Leigh Flatman Robert, farmer, Stow Bridge Nicholls Hy. boot maker, Stow Bridge bart. M.V.O., D.L., J.P. Stow hall; Goodens Robert, farmer, Stow Bridge ~ixon Ellen (Mrs.), farmer & Carlton. Arthnr's & Marlborough Green Henry Zachariah, beer retailer, North Hannah (.Mrl!. ), farmer, Barro­ clubs S W & Bachelors' club W. Stow Bridge way Drove London G-nnns .T ohn, shopkeeper Orr William, gardener to Sir Thos. Hoff Mrs Gunns Robert, farmer Leigh Hare hart Hudson Fred Hammond Frusher, carpenter, builder Overton Geo. beer retlr. Stow Bridge­ Hutson Waiter, The Poplars & wheelwright, blacksmith & agri­ Pearce Robert, farmer,BarrowayDrove­ ttlorton J oseph cultural machine & implement Patchett Thos. be€r ret. Stow Bridge Rowell Edward Perceval agent, Lady Drove Ray Her'bert, farmer, Fen & Widdows- COMMERCIAL. Hammond William, blacksmith, agri· farms, Barroway Drove Alborough Chas. grocer &c. Stow Bdg cultural machine & implement agent, Reeve Wm. Thos. farmer, Stow Brdg Alflatt J as.Hy. buildr. & contractr. brick Stow Bridge Riches Percy Wm. shpkpr. Stow Brdg & tile ma. ; & at Thorpe Harwin Wm. farmer, Barroway Drove Rolfe Fredk. Wm. farmer,Stow Bridgs­ Ambrose .Tames Ward, beer retailer, Haverson James, Eel Pie inn Routledge Thomas, Black Horse P.H. Barroway Drove Howlett Mary (Mrs.). Post office Barroway Drove Atkins J ames, beer retailer Hudson Frederick, farmer, Park farm Rowell Edwd_ Perceval, frmr. Rill fm Balls Geotge, Crown P.H Hutson Wait. farmer, The Poplars fm Sayle Harry, Hare Arms inn, assessor­ Beart C. & Co. corn merchants, Stow Johnson Geo. farmer, Barroway Drove & collector of taxes & assistant Bridg-e & Bridge street, Downham .Tohnson Wm. frmr. Barroway Drove overseer for Stow Bardolph & Wim-­ Heart Charles, farmer,Westhrad farm Jones Thomas, farmer, Church farm botsham Bell Thos. blacksmith, Post office, Stow Knott William Henry, farmer Staines John, plumber, painter,under­ Bowden Thos. butcher, Stow Bridge Lewis Arthur, farmer, BarrowayDrove taker & wheelwright; & at · Burgess Ralph, farmer & auctioneer, Lewis Frank, farmr. Barroway Drove & Home farm Lewis Robt. farmer, Barroway Drove Tiffin John, farmer, Barroway Drove­ Bussens J ames, land agent to Sir Lewis William, farmer, Shrub ho. Thorpe Albert, farmer,Barroway Drove­ Thomas Leigh Hare bart Barroway Drove Wh}"brow Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper,. Buzzard John, farmer, Stow Bridge Lewis William, farmer, Willow house, Barroway Drove Post office Chapman Jn ..farmr. Barroway Drove Barroway Drove Wray Chas. wheelwright,Stow Bridge-

STOW-:BEDON is a !\mall parish with a station r~ 19ro by the Rev. Michael Power M.A. of Trinity College,_ miles north-west from the village church, on the Bury, Dublin. Here is a Primitive Methodist chapel. Ray's Thetford and Swaffham sect-ion of the Great Eastern rail- charity of £I ss. yearly is for bread, and the fuel allot­ way, 4 south from Watton and 7 west from .Attleborough, ment produces [2o xos. yearly. Stow-Bedon Mere is in the South Western division of the county, Wayland about 23 acres in extent. The Hon. Charles S. M. hundred, petty sessional division and union, Attleborough Bateman-Hanbnry is lord of the manor and the chief and Watton county court district, rural deanery of landowner. The soil is mixed; subsoil, clay and gravel. Breccles, archdeaconry of Norfolk and diocese of Norwich. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The church of St. Botolph is an edifice chiefly in the The area is 1,729 acres of land and 12 of water; rate­ Perpendicu~ar style, consisting- of chancel, nave, western able value, £1,662; the population in I9II was 302. porch and a turret 19 feet in height and containing one Parish Clerk, .Tames Webster. bell: on the north side of the church are two small Early Post Office.-Jamt>s W!'bster, sub-postmaster. Letters Decorated windows, and in the north wall of the chancel through Attleborough arrive at . a.m. & dispatched two lancets filled with stained glass taken from Hilder· 7 15 b h h c b ·d th t · d . E at 8.30 a.m. & 6.25 p.m.; sundays, arrive 8.55 a.m.; s am c urc • am n ge: e eas wm ow IS ar1 Y dispatched IO.IO a.m. Caston, I mile distant, is the English: the nave is divided from t.he chancel by a hand- nearest money order & telegraph office some carved oak screen: the south wall of the chancel Post Office, Lower Stow-Bedon.-Frederick Dexter, sub- retains a piscina: in 1887 a western porch of flint with postmaster. Letters through Attleborough arrive at Bath stone dressings was erected at a cost of £35: the _ a. m. & dispatched at _ p.m. Great Hockham, 7 40 7 45 church was thoroughly restored and enlarged in 1852, 2 miles distant, is the nearest money order & tele- and has 232 sittings, 92 being free: near the south wall graph office oTfhthe c~atnceld are tfhree ttohmbs bearing floTnh·atel~ _cros;;es. Station Letter Box cleared week days at 8 a. m. & 5·55 e regis er ates rom e year· 1722. e IviDg IS a VIcarage,. annexe d t o th a t o f B reccI es, ne t yearI y va I ue p.m. ; sunrlays, 9·40 a.m £225, including 6 acres of glebe and 8 small farm at County Council School, erected in 1904, for 67 children; Shipdham, with residence, in the gift of the Hon. average attendance, 54; Miss Lilian Riley, mistress C. S. M. Bateman-Hanbury D.L., J.P. and held since Railway Station, Herbt. Geo. Wooltorton, station master Power Rev. Michael M.A. (rector), Clark William, White Horse P.H Dexter Frederick, shopkeeper, Post Rectory Corley George Smith, farmer ; office, Lower Stow-Bedon COM:U:ERCIA.L. Crawford Stephen, farmer Disdle Thomas (Mrs.), farmer Bnnn Percy Alan, farmer, Hall farm Davey Waiter, farmer I Dodman John Henry, farmer Cator James, farmer Dennis Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Harrison James, farmer Cator John, farmer Mere farm • Knights Henry, farmer