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owner~. The soil is light mixed; subsoil, sand and Brooke, j miles distant, is the nearest telegraph gravel, with. some clay. The chief crops are wheat, office. Wall Letter Box, at White Lodge, cleared at oats and barley, market garden produce and fruit, 4.20 p.m. (not sundays) especially cherries. The area is 1,989 acres; rateable value; , ; the population in rgn was _ Public Elementary School (mixed). erected in 1836, & £ 2 322 424 Parish Clerk, William Stephen Lovd. enlarged in 1905, at a cost of £400, for 125 children; Post & M. 0. Officc.-Mrs. Annie McPherson, sub-post- average attendance, 56; Miss Anna Beatrice Horrex, mistress. Letters arrive from , delivered at mistress 6.30 a.m. & 4 p.m.; S'Undays, 8 a.m. (callers only) ; Carriers to Norwich, from Loddon, pass through mon. dispatched at II.I5 a.m. & S p.m.; sundays, 5 p.m. wed. fri. & sat Curtis Saml. Wm. farmer, White lo Leeder Edmund Albert,farmer, assist- PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Drake William, gamekeeper to W. R. ant overseer, clerk to Parish Council Bruce John Knight, The Cottage Mills esq & collector of King's taxes, Valley Claxton Donald, The Hollies Dunt Robert Henry, blacksmith farm .Denny Mrs. J. D. Manor house Ellis Sophia (Mrs.), farmer, Beech Lovewell David, shopkeeper Harrison Matthew, Washingford farm (postal address, Thurton, Mayhew Charles, market gardener Manor house Norwich) ~orman Henry, fatmer, Town farm NorgatP Charles Edwd. Holly lodge Farrow Horace, market gardener Preston Fred, beer retailer Thursby Rev. Harvey William Gusta- Farrow James, farmer, Mere farm Reading Room (J. Read, sec) vus M.A., J.P. Rectory Girling Jabez, market gardener Redgrave Maurice Anron & Son, bldrs COMMERCIAL. Harrison Mark, farmer & dairyman, Rope Aaron, farmer & market gardnr Alexander Charles, farmer The Hall Sturman Henry Wm. market gardnr Brinn John Raven, market gardener Harrison Matthew, farmer, Washing- Vincent Arthur,carpenter & whlwrght (postal address, Thnrton, Norwich) ford Manor house Wall Leonard, market gardener Brown Robert, farmer, Street farm Holman vVilliam, market gardener Westrop Jonathan Wilfred, farmer Burgess Bros. farmers, Hillside farm Keeler John, rr.a.rket gardener (postal Wright George, shopkeeper Burroug-hs Daniel, farmer,Bussey bdg address, Thurton) Wright Harry, boot maker Carver Edwd. Geo. market gardener King H. A. & Co. oil &c. merchants Wright William, farmer BESSINGHAM (or Bassingham) is a parish a miles through the park, and attached to the house is a con­ north from , 6 south-we-st from Crome.r, 6 north- servatory; there are ah!o extensive shrubberies and west from Gunton station on the Norwich and pleasure and kitchen gardens, the latter containing a section c;>f the Great Eastern railway, 6 east-south-east piduresque summer-house overlooking the road, with a from Holt station on the Midland and Great Northern spired turret and stained windows. E. Denham joint railway and 9 from North Walsham, in the Northern esq. J.P. is lord of the manor and principal landowner. division of the county, union of Erpingham, hundred and In the north-west part of the parish, on the estate, is petty sessional division of Cromer, county court district a mound surrounded by a moat; it was probably a . of Halt, rural deanery of Repps, and archdea.conry and Roman encampment, a. quantity of Roman pottery . The church of St.. Andrew, after having- been dug up on the site in 1870: the whole br.ving been for many years in a very dilapidated condi· now forms a. considerable plantation. The soil is tion, was restored in 1869, and is a.n edifice of stone, various, but chiefly brick earth and marl: the surface in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, is undulating and picturesque, being much wooded. The south porch, and a round 'embattled western tower con- chief crops are wheat, turnip9, barley and J!TilSS. The taining 2 bells : the communion plate includes a silver area is 495 acres, of which 330 are arable and the rest chalice dated I567: there are IOO sattings. The register pasture; rateable value, £784; the population in I9II dates from the year 1536. The living is n discharged was 141 in the civil and 1.'14 in the ecclesiastical parish rectory, net yearly value £wo, with 33 acres of glebe in rgor. By the "Divided Parishes Act" a. deta.ched part and residence, in the gift of the University of Oxford, of this parish was amalgamated with Darningham and held since 1896 by the Rev. Edward Howard Taylor Winter in r!l84. B.A. and L.Th. of Durham University and M.A. of St. L tt Bo d t ._ Peter's College, Cambridge; who is also vicar of and e erd x llc 1eat;e a 9·3° a.m. cu 5 ·45 p.m.; no "d t d Th M H th "d sun ay co ec wn. Letters through Norwich arri'l'"e res1 es at s us ea . e anor ouse, e res1 ence t Th t d ._ t I h · · f d a 8 .30 a.m. e neares money or er "" e egrap 0 f E . D en h am S purre11 esq. J . P . 1s a manswn o re ffi · t G h b t ~ il d" t t bnck,· 1n· the Tu d or sty1 e, erecte d m· 1B7o, and s1tuated· (; 1ce 1s a res am ' a ou 1~ m es 1s an in a park of about roo acre~; a small stream meanders The children of this place _attend the school at Greshnm COMMERCIAL. \Eglington Jn.Cooper, Horse S'hoesP.H PRIVATE RI<;SIDENTS. Barney Robert Benj.farmr.Manor frm Rawlings Mary Elizh. (Mrs.), shopkpr Spurrell Edmund Den ham J .P. Bessingham Bowling Club (Joseph i Thaxter George, farmer Manor house Cox, sec) Witham Freder·ick, blacksmith Spurrell Flaxman C. J. The Den Dunham John, farmer

:BE STHOR:PE is a p=ish and scattered village, I mile is now the property and residence of Mrs. Bryant: the north-east from Attleborough station on the Thetford and house underwent considerable alterations in 1881: the Wymondham section of the Great Eastern railway, in the inclosing walls of an old tilting ground here are still Mid division of the county, Guiltcross and Shropham standing. There is a fuel allotment of 15 acres, let at petty sessional division, Wayland union, Shropbam £5 yearly. Henry Edwin Garrod esq. of Mount stret>t., hundred, Attleborough county- court district, rural dean- Diss, is lord of the manor. The land is generally frPe­ ery of Rockland (North Division), a;rchdeaconry of Nor- hold, in the occupation of various owners. Mrs. Brynnt, folk and diocese of Norwich. The church of All Saints Miss Bauly, of Kenninghall, Mrs. Emily Peto, Willinm is a cruciform building of Hint, in the Decorated style, Black esq. and the trustees of James Clarke esq. are the and consists of chancel, nave, tra.nsepts, south porch principal landawners. The sm:t is cla.y; subsoil, clay. and a lofty western tower containing 5 bells: there is a The chief crops are wheat and barley. The area is 2.191 fine monument of white marble to members of the Drury acres; rateable value, £3,945; the population in I9II family and a. memorial window to th., Rev. Edward was 523. Banister, vicar 1857-80: the church was partly restored Sext{)n, William Cook. • in r876, and the work completed in 1883, and has 200 sittings. The register dates from the year 1558. The liv- Post Office, Mill road.-Mrs. Cathe;ine Nelson, sub- ing is a vicarage, net yearly value £177, with 33 acres of postlnistress. Letters through Attleborough, arrivP at glebe and residence, in the gift of Mrs. Utton Browne 6.15 a. m. & i.m p.m.; dispatched at II-45 a.m. k 8 and trustees, and held since 1903 by the Rev. Vincent p.m.; no sunday delivery. Attleborough, 2 miles William Saulez B.A. of St. Mary Hall, Oxford. distant, is the nearest money order k telegraph cffice Besthorpe Hall, a mansion of red brick, erected in 1590, Wall Letter Box, Turnpike. cleared 6.35 p.m. week days was originally the seat of Sir William Drury, whose only

ar:ms, toget~er with those of the Needhams, Earls and Pillar Letter Box, The Limes, cleared a.m. & . 10 V1scounts Kilmorey, appear over the east front; before p m week days only 7 7 1771. it became the property of the Earl of Winterton. by · · purchase from William, sth Lord Byron, and Elizabeth I Public Elementary School (mixed), for 93 children; bis wife, in whose possession it remained until 1879; ili average attendance, 70; Miss ¥. V. Capon, mistress

Balv. Horace Edward, The Cottaaee Saulez Rev. Vincent Wm. B.A. (vicar) COVVKBCIAL. Bryant Mn. Besthorpe hall Utton-Browne Mn. Vicarage Brook.a James, farmer, Stubley fRrm Clarke Misses, Old hall Brown Albert (Mrs.). farmer,The Carr