24·8 M.lNNINGTON, a very fine park, and surrounded by a moat. The soil is Letters through Norwich, viA Aylsh·!ml·, arrive about 8l3~> light; subsoil, various. The chief crops are wheat, a.m. & 3.30 p.m. The nearest money order office, Sax- turnips, barley and grass. The area is 561 acres; rate- thorpe, & nearest telegraph office at Corpusty station,. able value, £405 ; the population in 1901 was 23. 2 miles distant Orford Earl of D.L., J.P. Mannington & TravelleiiS' clubs SW; Garrick I Lee William George, farmer; :reside& hall; 36 Bruton street W; Oarlton club W C & Bachelors' club,W Lndn at Little Barningham Adams Jas. gamekeeper to the Earl

MARHAM is a parish and village, 4 miles south-west j Wisbech Water Works Co. which has now removed its­ from Narborough station on the Lynn and Dereham sec- pumping station from Wiggenhall St. Germans to this tion of the Great Eastern railway, 7 west from Swaffham parish and erected works and premises suitable for the­ and 9 north-east from Downham, in the South Western purpose of pumping the splendid fresh water which arises­ divisiOn of the county, Clackclose hundred and petty ses- I from the springs here, to Wisbech March, and several sional division, Downham union and coUBty oourt district, ' villages. There was formerly here 8 nunnery of the-· rural deanery of Fincham (east division), archdeaoonry Cistercian order, belonging to Ely Abbey, founded in· of Lytm and diocese of Norwich. The church of the Holy 1249 by Maud (de Verdun), wife of John Fitzalan, 5tli· Trinity is a large building of flint and stone in the Per- Earl of Arundel, and dedicated to SS. Mary, Barbara, and' pendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, Edmund the King: at the Dissolution, when there were· south porch and a lofty embattled western tower, with 1 10 nuns and revenues estimated at £33· it was granted to quoins of freestone, and containing 6 bells : the tower has 1 Sir Nicholas and Robert Hare: some remains of it may.­ recently (1904) been thoroughly repaired at a cost of up- I be seen at a farm-house and outbuildings 8 little westt wards of £100: about 1844 the church was new of the church, and joining the Abbey Farm. Marham roofed and several stained windows erected, some of which House, the residence of H. V. Bathurst esq. was princi~ were presented by the late Henry Villebois esq. of Mar- pally built in r86r. Marham Hall is occupied by Messl'B. ham Hall, who died in r886: in the church is an ancient Thomas Brown and Son, the well-known breeders of' tomb, with recumbent effigies of native chalk, to John Cotswold sheep and red polled cattle. Thomas Leigb Steward esq. and Anne (Shouldham), his wife, buried here Hare esq. M.P. of The Hall, Stow Bardolph, who i!' in 16o3-4; in r867 the whole wall of the nave was restored, lord of the manor of New Hall and Shouldhams and H. and in 1875 the whole of the interior was restored and V. Bathurst esq. who is lord of the manor of Old Hall and' re-seated at a cost of £1,500; of this amount £250 was Westacre,- are the chief landowners. The soil is sand' contributed by St. John's College, Cambridge, for im- and peat; subsoil, principally chalk. The chief crops are provements in the chancel : there are 200 sittings. The roots, barley, seeds and wheat. The area is 3·975 acres· churchyard was considerably enlarged in r864. The of land and 6 of water; rateable value, £2,799; the· register dates from the year r562. The living is a population in ~9or was 633 vicarage, net yearly value £320, including 56 acres of Parish Clerk, Thomas Gooderson, junr. glebe ~nd residence, in .the gift of St. John's College, Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., E. D., s. B. & A. & r: Ca~bridge, and held smce r868 by the Rev. Henry Office. Robert Parlett, sub-postmaster. Letters 8r- Josiah Sharpe M.A. and lat~ ~e!low of th~t college. rive from Downham at 8 a.m. & 2 .45 p.m.; dispatched• There are Wesleyan and Pr1mJt1ve Methodist chapels at 9.15 a.m. & 5.40 p.m. week days & 10 a.m. oa here. In 1799 two poor'~ ~llotments were awarded und~r sundays. Sunday delivery 8 a.m the lnclosure Act, oontammg 20? acres o~ ~en land: m Wall Letter Box: cleared 5·15 daily, except sunday r869-70, by a scheme of the Chanty CommJSS!on~rs, the~e Public Elementary School (mixed), considerably enlarged allotments .were let, and the net proc~eds distnbuted m in 18 2 & now holding 1 0 scholars. average attend- eoals, but m consequence of the carrymg out of the N ar 7 4 d' • M · h th t · bl f d" t "b ance, 125 ; Waiter Gladstone Ran s, master, rs... V a ll ey d ramage se erne e amoun avru1 a e or IS r1 u. M A R d · t tion. was very considerably reduced. It is now however · ary nn an s, IDlS ·ress. (1904) larger than at any previous time in consequence of Carners. the most expensive of these allotments consisting of To Lynn.-James Bone, tues. & sat about qo acres having been let on long leases to the To Downham.-James Baldry, fri :Pathurst Henry Villebois, Marham ho -Brown Jacob, Old Bell P.H Hudson John (exors. of), grocers. Brown Davis, Marham hall Caley Thomas, butcher & farmer Ketteringham Robert, boot maker· Gamble Mrs Carter James Henry, wheelwright & Miller William. blacksmith Peck Miss coach builder Morley Herbert, baker Sharpe ReT. Hy. Josiah M.A.V'tcarage Codlin Thomas, shoe maker Parlett Rt. grocer, draper & new&- Stockdale George Edmund, Manor ho Goggles Robert, beer retailer agent, Post office Coston William, rate collector Ramm John, Fox & Hounds P.H. &- "OMMERCIA.L. Cutbush Alfred John, baker & grocer cattle dealer Able John William, shopkeeper Dye Ellen (Mrs.), butcher Reeve Charles, farm bailiff to George· Baldry James, carrier Eves Alfred, beer retailer H-eading esq. Abbey farm Bone James, carrier & farmer Gascoyne Henry, land steward to Hy. Shepherd Joseph, miller (wind) & bakl"' Brasnett Charles Robert, farmer Villebois Bathurst esq Smith James, farmer & cowkeeper Brown Thomas & Son, farmers & Green Gates, farmer ~tockdale George Edmund, farmer & breeders of the well-known Cotswold Harrison Charles, cowkeeper & farmr breeder of Shire horses, Manor sheep, Red Polled Cattle & Shire Harvey James, grocer & draper House farm horses, Hall farm Hewing Edward, butcher MARKSHALL (or Mattishall Heath) is a parish, 3 and rural dean of Brooke (western division), who resides-. miles south from Norwich, in the vale of the river Taas, at Caistor. Mrs. Green, of Caistor Hall, is lady of th& in the Southern division of the county, Swainsthorpe manor and chief landowner. The soil is mixed; subsoil;.. petty sessional division, hundred of Humbleyard, Henstead g-ravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley and roots. union, Norwich county court district, rural deanery of The area is 552 acres; rateable value, £955; tliere are· Brooke (western division), archdeaconry of Norfolk and only seven houses; the population in 1901 was 48 diocese of Norwich. The church was desecrated in 1695, Letters through Norwich, viA Caistor. The nearest moner but some remains of it are still to be seen. The living order & tele~raph office is at Stoke Holy Cross i<3 a rectory, annexed to CaistOT St. Edmund, joint net This place is included in the United District of Porin~ yearly value £324, with II acres of glebe, in the gift of land. The central school is at Framing-ham Earl, but 1\Irs. Green, and held since r88r by the Rev. Anthony the children attend the ~chool at Stoke Holy Cross.. South Morse B.A. of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, about 2 miles distant • Alien Thomas Philip, farmer MARLINGFORD is a parish and scattered village in south porch and an embattled western tower containing· the Yare valley, 5! miles north from Wymondham station one bell: the south doorway is N01man, and there is also and 5 north from Hethersett station, both on the Thetford a Norman font, restored by the rector, to the memolJ' and Norwich section of the Great Eastern railway, and 6 of two infant children: the stone pulpit is a memorial to· west-by-south from Norwich, in the Mid division of the Arthur Frederick Vincent, d. 2 April, r875, and WM· oowrty, Forehoe hundred, petty sessional division and erected by his parents, the Rev. Sir Frederick Vincent· nnion, Norwich county oourt district, rural deanery of hart. M.A. and Lady Vincent, in rBBr: there are two· Hingbam, Forehoe division, aTchdeaconry of Norfolk and piscinre, and the staircase formerly leading to the rood-· dio~ese of Norwich. The church of St. Mary the Virgin loft has been restored, and now gives access to the pulpit:· jc:; a building- of flint and rubble in the Decorated and Early ill the chancel is a marble tablet to the Rev. Thomas English styles, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, Greene M.A. 21 years rector of this ]>a:u.i&h, d'. ro Oet.