DIRECTORY.] 251 . [.] Bolling Rev. Edward Jas. M.A.[rector] COM l\IERCIAL. Howling William, farmer BuckenhRm Mr. Geor~e Chapman Rohert, farmer & miller Lc,·erage J obn, carpenter & shopkeeper Mills J oseph Truman. esq . .J .P. Cress­ Daines Rohert, farmer Tedder .T obn, farmer ingham hall Hardy Brighton, farmer To! man Jas. White Horse, & blacksmith

CRIMPLESHAM is a village and parish, 2~ miles east for infant3, held in a building situate at the extreme end from Downham !liarket station, and 9(}~ from London, in the of the villag-e, supported by the Doy le family (of the Hall) : 1Vestern division of the county, in Clackclose hundred, the childr~n are also partially clothed at their expense, and Downham union am! county court district, rural deanery two good clothing clubs have been est11blished for the benefit of Fincham. arch deaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of . of the inhabitants. Sir William Hagge, Bart., M.P., is lord The church of the Virgin Mnry is a neat building, with a of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is mostly nave, and square tower containing 5 bells. The register strong clay of excellent quality. The population in 1861 dates from the year 1560. The living is 1'1 vicarage, yearly was 328, and the area 1,6:20 acres. - value £95, in the ~ift of the , and held by Pari8h Clerk, Thomas Clark. the llev. John Cross Morphew, M.A .• of St. Peter's College, Cambridge. To the poor are allotted 12 acres of land, Letters throngh Downham Market, which is the neareiilt producing an average rental of £27 per annum, distri­ money order office buted in coals yearly. There is a well attended day school Village Sf1hool (for infants), Mrs. Sarah Hunt, mistress PRIVATE RESIDENT8, Burdock John Thomas, steward to Mrs. Harpley William, farmer Doyle Mrs. Elizabeth, The Hall E. & .Mrs. H. Doyle. The Lodge Hesson William, farmer Doyle Mrs. Hannah, The Hall Coe John, farmer Oakes Hohert, farmer Harpley Mrs Crane Henry, farmer Perkins Ann (Mrs.), farmer Morphew Rev. John Cross, M.A.[vicar] Draper William, gardener Reader George, blacksmith COMMERCIAL. Harpley John, farmer Rix Benjamin Wm. farmer Alflat Henry, bricklayer Harpley Joseph, Red Hart Roberts James, Nag's Head

CRING l·EFORD is a village and parish, about 2~ Here is a large corn-mill, of ancient date, on the , miles south-west from Norwich, and near station, and a good bridg-e. This place was totally consumed by and 124 from London by rail, in the South-Eastern division fire in Queen Elizabeth's reign, and an Act was passed for of the county, Humbl~yard hunrlred, Henstead union, its rebuilding in 1581. The trustees of St. Giles's Ho~ltal, Norwzch connty eourt district, rural deanery of Humble­ commonly called the Old Man's Hospital, Norwich, are yard, arch deaconry of Nor folk, anrl diocese of Norwich. The lords of the manor, and, with Mr11. Taylor and A. Massey, church of St. Peter is a fli11t building, with square tower, Esq., are the p1·incipal landowners. 'l'he soil is of a light containing 3 bells: it has a nave and chancel with a porch on sandy nature; sub:mil, sandy. The crops are of the usual the north side. The register datc9 from the year 1560. The kind. The population in 1861 was 205, and the area is living is a vicarage, yearly value £100, in the gift of the 980 acres. trustei'S of St. Giles's Hospital, Norwich, and held by the Rcv.Thomas Dunn, M.A., of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Letters through Norwich, t:ici Ea ton. Norwich is the nearest A village school for boys and girls is supported b.v voluntary reoney order office contributions and a small weekly payment by the scholars. School, John Land, master; 1\Irs. Harriet Land, mistreM Davie Rev. 'Villiam Cufaude, M.A. Massey Alfred, esq. The Grove Ewing & Child, nursery & seeds men. [curate of Intwood], Hall Pattcson Mrs nursery, & 9 Exchange Dunn Rev. Thomas. M.A. [vicar] Tyler Mrs street, Norwich Edwards Mr. William Pyc COMMEHCIAL. George George, farmer Girdlestone Frederit:k, esq Bright Zachariah. Jarmer Hubbard Robert, farmer & cattle dealer Girdles tone Mrs Candler H oratio, miller & farmer Turner John J osepb, blacksmith & Harding Rev. James Wm. B.A.[cnrate] Cannell Abraham, farmer wbeelwright

CROMER is a town and parish, ann polling place for the house and slipway built, by B. B. Cabbell, Esq., at a cost of North-Eastern division of the county, at the most north-east £1,000. A short distance from the town, in the parish point of the Norfolk coast, about 10 miles east-north-east of , is situated the lighthouse. a white brick from Holt, 9 north-north-west from North \'{a!sham, 11 tower, 52 feet in height, and ::300 feet above the level north-by-east from , 22 north from Norwich, and of the sea, and crowned with a lantern lighted by 30 130 from London, in North hundred, Er·pingham patent lamp!<, in finely vlated reflectors, which revolve union, Ho! t county court district, rural deanery of Repjh~, upon an upright axis; the oil expended yearly is about archdeaconry of Norfolk, and dioct-se of Norwich. It is a 1,000 gallons. Cromer has many comfortable and respect­ fashionable bathing-place, picturesquely situated on the able hotels and private lodging houses for the accom­ cliff~, which are a considerable height above the beach: the modation of its vi~itors: the beaeh has a fine firm sand and town is sheltered on three sides by an amphitheatre of hills, a level surface, which affords a delightful promenade for partly covered with wood. Cromer was once a chartered several miles ; on the brach are bathing machines. Here are town. but for a yery long time the charter J1as been lost, also warm baths. A ple.!sure fair is held on Whit-l\Ionday. and there is no market place. The town is well supplied The church of SS. Peter and Paul is a large Gothic pile, with poultry, butter, eggs, and fruit, by the farmers and built, as is supposed, in the reign of Henry IV.: it has an euttagers in the neighbnuring parishes. In 1845 an Act of embattled hm ei", 150 feet high, of cut flint and freestone ~ Parliament was ol>tained for tlle purpose of raising money the whole edifice was richly ornamented with sculpture : the to build a new jetty and breakwaters, and also for erecting a wf'st entrance is a beautiful piece of architecture: the north sea wall extending along the whole front of the west end of porch and chancel have long been in ruins. The register the town, with an esplanade for the accommodation of the dates from the year 1689. 'l'he living is a vicarage, yearly visitors: the works have been completed at an expense value £100, in the gift of the Bishop of Norwich, appro­ of about £7,000: it is hoped they will be an efl:ectual priator of the great tithes (now leased to the He vs. J. H. barrier to tile incursion of the sea, which l1as at difl:erent and E. B. 8parke), and held by tl1e Rev. Frederick Fitch, times invaded this coast. and in the time- of Henry IV. M.A., of Christ's College, Cambridge. Sir Bartholomew swallowed up the town of Shipden, in which parish Heed, a native of Cromer, who was Lord .Mayor of Lonrlon Cromer was then situated: in Hl25 and 1832 large por- in the year J.502, founded a Free school, and endowed it with tions of the cliff fell into the sea so as to endangt>r the £10: the Golrlsmiths' Company of London are the trustees, old lighthouse, and in 18-15 the old jetty was washed away and rebuilt the school in 18:21, since which time they lmve and other damage done. The chief business of the town is paid the master £100 a year for teaching all the boys of the coal trade, and the fishePies for herrings, cod, whitings, Cromer and its vicinity who are sent to him for i11slruction. lobsters and crabs: the coal trade employs several ships. Here is a place of worship for \V esleyans. Within the last which come on to the beach at high water, when the coals few years a spring of medicinal water has been discovered, are taken up the cliff in cart~. Ship~t are continually seen which visitors to Cromer will undoubtedly consider an im.., passing on the North Sea, but the coast i!'l extremely dan- portant advantage: its chief recommendation is the presence gerous, and there are five lights between this and Yarmouth. of iron dissolved by carbonic acid, but it should be drunk as In 1868 a lifeboat was presented to the town, and a lifeboat soon as drawn, otherwise tha iron is precipitated: of this