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[KELLY'S Youngman Godfrey Neale (exors. of), Swan Commercial, Youell William, coachman, Gawdy hall Family Hotel & Posting House, hearse & funeral car­ Youngs E. & Co. agricultural implement manufacturers riage proprietor Youngs A.rthur William, baker, road EAST HARLING (or Market Harling) is a parish and 1485, to Sir Thomas Lovell, knighted 1487, and were &mall market town, situated on an acclivity above the some time afterwards held by Gregory Lovell, and on , with a station called " Harling Road " on the his death by his half-brother, John Lovell: the pl'Qperty and section of the Great Eastern rail­ subsequently passed to Charles Wright esq. and thence way, 1! mile& north-west from the village, and is 9 miles descended to his grandson, who was lord of the manor north-east from Thetford and 104l from London, in the and patron of the living in 1736, and the Wright family Mid division of the county, Guiltcross and or their representatives continued to have interests in this petty sessional division, Guiltcross hundred, Thetford parish until about 1822. The water mill and adjacent union, A.ttleborough county court district, rural deanery lands belonged for several generations before 1820 to the of Rockland (south division), archdeaconry of Norfolk and family of Rodwell, but are now the property of the trns­ . The church of SS. Peter and Paul, t.ees of the late Timothy Colman esq. Mrs. Buxton, of standing on a slight elevation close to the high road, was Icklingham, , is lady of the manor. The Earl of 'erected in the 15th century (c. 1449), on the site of an Albemarle C.B., M.V.O. Capt. George F. MolinenX-Mont. earlier structure, by Sir William Chamberlain kt. and gomerie, of , and the trustees of the late completed by Sir Robert Wingfield kt, : it is a building of Timothy Colman esq. are the chief landowners. The stonA in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel with soil is light loam ; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are north or Jesus and St. Anne's chapels, nave, aisles, south wheat, barley and turnips. The area is 2,613 acres; porch and a lofty western tower with 12 pinnacles and an rateable value, £3,249; the population in 1901 was 1,031. elegant spire, and containing 6 bells : in St. Marfs or Sexton, Robert Towell. the Harling cha'Pel, at the east end of the south aisle, Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., E. D., S. B. & A. & which still retams much of its elaborate carving and I. Office. Mrs. Ma.ria Barnard, sub-postmistress. Let­ ornamental work, was buried Johp de Herling, c. 1392: ters by mail cart from Thetford arrive at 4·35 a.m. here also is an altar tomb, with recumbent marble effigies, & 3.15 p.m.; delivery commences at 7 a. m. & 3.30 to Sir Robert Harling, slain in 1435, during the French p.m. ; dispatched at 2.35 & 7·55 p.m. There is one war, a..'1d subsequently interred here, and to his lady; delivery on sundays, commencing at 7 a.m.; dispatched the tomb is adorned with figures of unicorns and pelicans: at 6.30 p.m on the south side of the chapel is a stately altar tomb of Box, Harling Road railway station, 8.5 p.m. week days; variously coloured marbles, with recumbent effigies, to 6.35 p.m. sundays Sir Thomas Lovell kt. ob. 16oo, and his wife, ob. 1604, and round the whole an iron grating: in the chancel, . COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR GUILTCROSS & under an arch opening into St. Anne's chapel, is a tomb, SHROPHA.M PETTY SESSIONAL DIV·ISION. surmounted by a fine slab of Purbeck marble, once bearing Nugent Sir Edmund Charles bart. D.L. The Hall, West effigies in brass, to Sir William Chamberlain K.G. com­ Harling, Thetford, chairman mander in France, ob. 1462, and Anne, daughter of the Albemarle Earl of D.L. Qnidenham park, Thetford above Sir Robert Herling, his wife, but the brasses have Champion William Needham Longden esq. long been missing; she afterwards married Sir Robert hall, Thetford Wingfield kt. and subsequently became the third Dunell Owen Robert esq. Garboldisham manor, Thetford wife of Sir John Scrope, fifth Baron Scrope, of Edwards Major William M. M., V.C., D.L. Hargham hall, Bolton: one side of the tomb displays the arms of Cham­ berlain : there are also other monuments, including a Hemsworth Augustus Noel Campbell esq. Shropham hall, number of coffin-shaped tombstones near the chancel door Thetford to members of the Rodwell family: the east window is Keppel Major Wm. George, , Attleborough filled with ancient glass, previously r~moved hence to the Montgomerie Capt. George F. Garboldisham old hall, but replaced about 1700 by Charles Wright esq.: Morris Sydney esq. D.L. hall, Thetford the church was restored and seated with open benches in Nngent Maj. Geo. Colborne esq.West Harling hall,Thetfrd 1878-79, and affords 400 sittings: the churchyard was Partridge Henry Thos. esq. The Hall, , Thetford enlarged and surrounded by a wall in 1829. The register dates from the year 1544. The living is a rectory, net Clerk to the Magistrates, Arthur Tallent Clowes, New yeaTly value £414, with 68 acres of glebe, in the gift of Buckenham Mrs. Grigson H. Wigg, and held since 1888 by the Rev. Petty Sessions are held at the Police Station, East Har­ Baseley Hales Grigson B.A. of Corpus Christi College, ling, every second monday at rr a.m. The following . There is a Primitive Methodist chapel, erected places are included in the Petty Sessional Division:­ in t865 on the site of a former chapel, and seating 200 Attleborough, Banham, Besthorpe, Blo' Norton, Bret­ perso11.s, and the Society of Friends have a meeting house, tenham, , Buck.enham (New), Buckenham with a burial ground attached. Harling Unionist Club (Old), Eccles, Garboldisham, Gasthorpe, Great Elling­ was established in 1889 for the working people of this ham, Hargham, Harling (East), Harling (West), Hock­ parish. A short distance north of the town is a limekiln. ham, Illington, , , Larling, Lop· A corn market is held here every Tuesday. A market, to ham (North), Lopham (South), Qnidenham, Riddles­ be held on Tuesdays, and tmJ yearly fairs were granted worth, Rockland (All Saints & St. Andrew's), Roud. by Edw. IV. in 1474: during the last and earlier part of ham, Rushford, Shropham, Snarehill (Great & Little), the present century the market was well supplied, cheese, , Wilby, Wretham (East) & Wretham (West) butter and provisions being sold on Cheese hill, and in County Police Station, Benjamin Lowe, superintendent, & the Market place the worsted, yarn and hempen goods 2 constables manufactured in the locality ; the market was then largely attended, but rapidly declined after the construction of VOLUNTEERS. the railway to· Norwich. The annual fair days, viz. May 4th Volunteer Battalion Norfolk Regiment (head quarteTS, 4th, the first Tuesday after Sept. 12th and Oct. 24th, are D Co. ), Capt. Edward Mornement, commanding now, as far as sheep and bullocks are concerned, obsolete. In the place of these there are annual sheep sales, one PUBLJC OFFICERS. · on the first Thursday in July, principally for lambs, a Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, Harling District, great many being bred in the district around, and another Thetford Union, Waiter Edward Cooper M.R.C.S.Eng., in April, chiefly for hoggets, a large number of sheep being L.R.O.P.Lond.; Hockham District of Wayland Union, penned on each occasion. The town lands of 96 acres Arthur Ernest Norris M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond produce £5r yearly, which is distributed as follows : Assistant Overseer & Collector of Rates, Fredk. Seakens One third to the church, one third towards the suppo:rt East Harling Public Elementary (Endowed) School of the public school, and the remainder to the town im- (mixed), erected in 1842, & enlarged in 1895, & will provement fund: under an order of the Inclosure Com- now· hold 240 children; average attendance, 190; Alfd. missioners, £28, the rent of _r;6 acres of fen land, is laid J ames Colham, master out in fuel for the poor. Old Harling Hall, a strudure of Harling Road Railway Station, Albert Stalbey, station brick, with an embattled tower, and built by Sir Thoma~ master Lovell kt. was polled down at the beginning of the present The 9.23 & 9·45 a.m. trains met by conveyance from century. The manors were granted by Henry VII. about 'Nag's Head,' daily Goodchild Robert, White Hart street Pattinson Christopher Geo. School la PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Grigson Rev. Baseley Hales B.A.(rec- Ray John Norman Charles, White ho. Andrews William, Gallants lane tor), East Harling hall Cheese hill Barker Ca.leb, The Beeches Kerridge Waiter W. J. Gallants lane Soffe William Edward, White Hart st Cooper W alter Edward :Mornement Edward, jun. Atmore ho Solly Alfred, Rose cottage Cracknell Mrs. White Hart street · ~orris Arthur Ernest Wright Charles, The Cedars