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HACKFbRD-:BY-REEF HAM is a parish, forming part of the town of Reepham. is a parish and pleasant village, on the J.P. and the Manor House, the property of I<'rederick borders of Suffolk, in the vale of the Waveney, with a sta­ Grimmer esq. and now occupied by Mr. T. E. Mack as a tion on the and section of the Great farm house, are residences pleasantly situated and command­ Eastern railway, 5~ miles north from Reccles, 6 east-south­ ing fine prospects: adjoining the Hall is a lake stocked with east from Loddon, 9 west-north-west from Lowestoft and 8~ home and foreign water fowl, and surrounded by shrub­ south-west from Yarmouth, in the Southern division of the beries and choice trees, amid which are some beautiful and county, Clavering hundred, Loddon and Clavering petty retired walks. :Frederick Grimmer esq. who is lord of the sessional division and union, Beccles county court district, manor, and Ambrose John Read Palmer esq. are the chief rural deanery of Rrooke Eastern division, archdeaconry of landowners. The soil is mixed light land ; subsoil, loam. Norfolk and . The Herringfieet junction The chief crops are wheat, barley, turnips and hay. The station on the section of the Great Eastern mentioned above, area, nearly half being marsh land, is 2,031 acres, 20 of and that from Yarmouth to Ipswich is in this parish. The tidal water and 24 of foreshore; rateable value £3,264 I2S. ; church of St. Mary, standing on an eminence, is an ancient the population in 1891 was 393· structure of flint in the Perpendicular style, consisting of Parish Clerk, George Gowing (deputy). chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch and a round em­ Post Otllce.-James Bee, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive battled western tower of Early Norman date containing 5 from Norwich, >ia Loddon, at 8.10 a.m. & 2.40 p.m. & bells, re-hung in 1890 at a cost of £65 : the church was dispatched at 12.30 p.m. & 2.35 p.m. ; no sunday post. restored in 1862, at a cost of nearly £6oo, and has 200 Letters for \Yaveney Valley works, Haddiscoe & St. sittings. The register dates from the year 1558. The living Olavc's junction station & "~ueen's Head," through is a rectory, consolidated with that of , average . Toft Monks is the nearest money tithe rent-charge £325, net yearly value £389, including 36 order office; Somerleyton k Reedham are the nearest acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of King's College, telegraph offices for delivery & the railway station for Cambridge, and held since 1877 by the Rev. Arthur Wace collection of telegrams M.A. of that College, and rural dean of Rrooke Eastern Haddiscoe Drainage Commission.-Jacob Elliot.Sayer,surveyr division. There is a small Primitive ::vrethodist chapel here, This place is included in Toft Monks & Haddiscoe United erected in 1872. There is a small Primitive Methodist School Board district, formed July I, 1873. The whool chapel here. The poor's land of 4a. zr. 37P· producing is in the parish of Toft Monks now (1896) £6 annually, which is distributed in coals. The Waveney Valley chemical manure works of Messrs. G. and Rail way Stations :- J. Bagshaw, standing on the banks of the river in this lladdiscoe (Lowestoft branch), James Stone, station master parish, maintain an extensive home and foreign trade. llerringfleet station (Exchange station), Robert Goodrum, Haddiscoe Hall, the seat of Ambrose John Read Palmer esq. station master Palmer Ambrose John Read J.P. Had-! Cole Edith & Clara (Misses), dress & Ives AmbroseGeo.sewing machine agnt drscoe hall I mantle makers - Jermyn Wm. shopkpr.&market gardenr Wace Rev. Arthur M.A. (rector & rural Cole William, blacksmith, assistant Jones William Edward, Crown P.B dean), Rectory overseer & clerk to parish council Keable James, market gardener Curtis Robert, 8hoe maker Kett Samuel, market gardener COMMERCIAL. Dawson .Tames, market gardener .Mack ThomasEdward,farmer,Manor ho Bagshaw G. & J. chemical manure Dawson Thomas, market gardener Prettymanl)aniel,frmr.&market gardnr manufacturers, bone crushers & Dingle Herbcrt, Queen's Head P.B Rivett Henry, marshman & eowk~eper brick makers, Waveney Valley works ' Easter Henry Robert, market gardener Sayer Jacob Elliot, farmer & surveyor Beales John Blowers, market gardener I & pork butcller to Haddiscoe drainage commission, Bee Jas. wheelwright & sub-postmaster 1 Farman Ambrose, market gardener Rnrnt House farm Buck James, market gardener Farman Jacob, marshman Sayer Thomas, farmer, White house Buck Thomas Wm. market gardener Farman Last, znarshman StearmanRobertMarler, market gardenr Calver Frederick George,grocer,draper, , FlaxmanAbsalom(Mr.3. ),market gardnr Yonngman Alfred, market gardener outfitter & general stores, malt, hop j Garwood James, market gardener Young man George, 'l'hree Tuns P. H & flour merchant Gowing Geo.thatcher & dep.parish clerk is a parish and pleasant village 4 miles south- been commuted for £204 yearly. There is a small west from Reedham station on the ~orwich and Yarmouth Primitive Methodist chapel. George William Danby and Lowestoft sections of the , 2 miles Palmer-Kerrison esq. J.P., of Ranworth Priory, is lord of the south-east from Loddon and 6 miles north-north-east from manors of Ha1es and Loddon Ha1ls, Nicholas lly. Bacon, Bungay, in the Southern division of the county, Clawering esq. of Hall; Thomas R. West esq. and the hundred, Loddon and Clavering petty sessional division and trustees of Mr. E. Easter are the principal landowners. union, Rungay and Eccles county court district, rural The soil is good mixed ; subsoil, sand, clay and gravel. deanery of Brooke Eastern division, archdeaconry of Norfolk The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The area is g86 and diocese of Norwich. The church of St. Margaret is a acres; rateable value,£r,o6I ; the population in 1891 was small building of flint originally Norman and consisting of 289. aspidalchanceland nave, both1with thatched roofs, and a round Sexton, Alfred Barber. western tower containing 2 bells. The north and south Post Office.-.Tames Bane, sub-postmaster. Letters through entrances are of Norman date. It is now (x8g6) contem- Norwich arrive at 7 a.m. & 3.40 p.m.; despatched at plated to restore the church, plans for which purpose have 6.50 a. m. 3-40 and 6 p.m. on week days only. Postal been prepared by Mr. H. Green, architect of Norwich ; there orders are issued here but not paid. Loddon is the nearest are 200 sittings. The register dates from the year 1674. money order & telegraph office The livi;ng is a vicarage, with that of Beckingham annexed, A School Board of 5 members was formed September 30, average tithe rent-charge £48, joint gross yearly value 1875, for the united district of llales & ; J. [,ro2 (including £36 from Queen Anne's Bounty), in the C. Copeman, Loddon, clerk to the board gift of Sir William Bowyer Srnyth, bart. and held since x8g6 The children of this place attend the Board school at by the Rev. : the impropriate tithes have Heckingham Ridley William Robmson Hardesty James, Gar!.len House inn Spinlove John, wheelwright & carpenter West Thomas Freston Hadingham Chester Charles, miller Spurgeon Tabitha (Mrs.), farmer, Bales West Thomas Robt. llales house Harper Amos, farmer & coal dealer green COMMERCIAL. Kerry Wm.farm bailiff to M. R.Haggard Stone Susan (Mrs.), butcher Bane James, dealer in corn, flour, pol- esq Vincent John, pig & poultry dealer, lards & malt, Post office Lamb Robert Spence, farmer & asst. Bales green Easter Charles, Carpenters' Arms P.H overseer, Bales green West Thos. Robt. farmer & landowner Easter Charles James, shopkeeper Leman John Spence, grocer & draper White John J. sanitary inspector & :Fisher Harry, blacksmith Lusher Christopher, farmer district surveyor Fisk William, machine owner Preston James, brickmaker Wiskar Thomas, farmer, Church farm HALVERGATE is a parish and >illage about 3 miles and a fine embattled western tower 84 feet high, with north from Reedham junction station on the Norwich and figures of the four Evangelists in place of pinnacles, and con­ Lowestoft section of the Great Eastern railway, 14 miles taining 6 bells : the brass eagle lectern is a memorial to the south-east from Norwich, 7 south-west from Yarmouth and Rev. Arthur Stanley Ormerod, 31 years vicar of this parish, in the Eastern division of the county, Blofield and Walsham d. 1884, and was the gift of his family: the church was petty sessional division, Walsham hundred, Blofield union, thoroughly restored in 1874, and affords 250 sittings. The Yarmouth county court district, rural deanery of Blofield register dates from the year 1550. The living is a discharged and archdeaconry and diocese of Norwich The church of vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £178, joint gross yearly SS. Peter and Paul is an ancient edifice of stone, in the value £3n, net £237, with 44 acres of glebe and residence, Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch in the gift of the Bishop of Norwich, and held since :r884 by