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Ives William, boot maker I'ratt Stephen, gardener to T. C. Smith Georg~, Horse Shoes hotel, job Jones Meyrick, motor cycle maker Blofeld M.A., J.P master & boat proprietor Lambert :i<'rdk. Wm. Black Horse P.H Rny Bros. grocers & ag~nts for W. & Spanton George, blacksmith Mitchell William (Mrs.), shopkeeper A. Gil'bey Limited, wine & spirit Tann Wallace James William, farmer, Morter William Charles, sedge collar merchants Home farm maker & market gardener Scott John, farm bailiff to T. C. Blo­ Ward Edwd. Jn. tobacconist, Post oft Norfolk Broads Yachting Co. Limited feld esq. M.A Wiley Thomas Hall, butcher (Alfred Pegg, manager) Silcock Cubitt, fa•.,.rm.., er, Church farm HOVETON ST. PETER is a parish of scattered Christi college, Cambridge, who resides at Hoveton St. b.ouses, on the road, r! miles north from Wrox- John. Hoveton Hall, the property of the trustees of the ham station on- the Norwich and Cromer section of the 1· late Sir Henry Jacob Preston hart. (d. 1897), but now Great Eastern railway and 9 north-east from Norwich, in (1904) unoccupied, is a handsome mansion, surrounded the Eastern division of the county, hundred of 1.'unstead, by a park of 200 acres, containing an ornamental piece Tunstead and Happing petty sessional division, SmaJI- of water, out of which flows a small rivulet, which burgh union, North Walsham county court district, rural eventually falls into the river Bure. The trustees of the deanery of Waxham (Tunstead division), and archdeaconry late Sir H. Jacob Preston hart. are lords of the manor and diocese of Norwich. The church of St. Peter, and principal landowners. The soil is mixed; subsoil, situated to the south-west of Hoveton Park, is a small clay and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, oats and edifice of brick and stone in the plain style, consisting of barley. The area is 986 acres of land and 9 of water; nave, south porch and a western bell-cot containing one rateable value, £9II; and the population in 1901 was bell: the porch bears the date 1624: the church was re- 121. seated by subscription in r885, according to designs fur- Letters received through Norwich arrive about 8 a.m. nished by Mr. H. J. Green, architect, of Norwich, and The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Wrox• has So sittings. The register dates from the year 1624. ham, in the parish of Hoveton St. John, about 2 milee The living is a vicarage, annaed to that of Hoveton St. distant. Letter Box, near Hoveton Hall, cleared ai John, joint net yearly value £rgo, with 6 acres of glebe, 12.35 p.m. & 5·5 p.m.; sundays, 5·5 p.m in !Me gift of the Bishop of Norwich, and held since r886 The children of this parish attend the school at Hoveton by the Rev. Jonathan William Woolley M.A. of Corp11111 St. John Gowing Geo. Edwd. farmer, North fm should be addressed Ashmanhaugh, IPlumbly Gilbert, farmer Ling Benj. farmer, Hall farm (letters Neatishead, Norwich) HOWE is a village and parish 5 miles south-east from residence, in the gift of Granville Charles Hasting11 Trowse station on the main line of the Great Eastern Wheler esq. of Otterden, Ken,, and held since r871 by railway and 6 11outh-east from Norwich, in the Southern the Rev. Charles Henry Lipscomb S.C.L. of Queen's division of the com1ty, Clavering hundred, Loddon and College, Oxford, and surrogate. There is a small charity, Clavering petty sessional division and union, Norwich left in 1734 by the Lady Elizabeth Hastings, for the wunty court district, rural deanery of Brooke (western education of eight poor children, and another charity of division), arcbdeaconry of Norfolk and diocese of Norwich. r6s. yearly left by Ezekiel Scoyles, to be given in bread. The church of St. Mary is a small but ancient building of John Holmes esq. of Brooke Hall, Norwich, is lord of flint, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, the manor and sole landowner. Tht~ soil is sand and nave, south porch and a round Saxon tower containing clay; subsoil, mixed. The chief crops are wheat, oats, one bell: the stained east window was placed by the Rev. beans, barley and roots. The area is 790 acres; rateable 0. H. Barling, of Brooke, and there is a small stained value, £509; the population in rgor was 91. lancet window in the chancel: the staircase to the rood- Letters through Norwich, via Brooke, arrive at 7.50 a.m. loft remains, and has been repaired : the ohurch was re- Brooke is the nearest money order & telegraph office, stored in r864 at the cost of the Rev. William Tattersall about r! miles distant. Letter Box, Church wall, B. A.. rector (r840-71), and the Rev. John Holmes, of cleared at _20 p.m Brooke, and in 1895 was entirely new roofed, and afforda 4 75 sittings. The register dates from the year 1559. The The children of this place attend the school at Brooke living is a rectory, with that of Little Poringland annexed, Lady Hastings School, founded in 1734, was rebuilt by joint net yearly value £246, with 56 acres of glebe and the present rector in 188o Lipscomb Rev. Charles Henry S.C.L. JBurgesa Benjamin, The Hall ITidnam James, farmer, Church farm; (rector & surrogate), Rectory Burgess Brothers, farmers, Hall farm res. Brooke a.nd NEW HUNSTANTON are heraldic tabards: there is also an inscription to Henry le parishes formed under the "Local Government Act, rBg4," Strawnge, ob. 1485, and Katherine (Drnry), hit wife; and out of the old parish of Hunstanton, i:R the North Western another to Sir Hamon le Strange hart. ob. 1654, and Dame di.vision of the county, Smithdon hundred, Smithdon and Alice (Stubbs) his wife, ob. 1656: there are other Brothercross petty sessional division, Docking union, Lynn memorials to Sir Thomas L'Estrange bart. d. Nov. 1751, county court district, Heaobam rural deanery, arch­ and Dame Ann (Calthorpe) his wife, d. 1742, Sir Henry deaconry of Lynn and diocese of N orwicb. Both parishes L'Estrange bart. his son, d. 21 Sept. q6o, without issue, are lighted with gas from works at New Hunstanton, and when the title became extinct, Charles L'Estrange, d. 25 supplied with water from a spring at Hun!ltanton, both Aug. r6g2, Ann L'Estrange, d. 1647 and Ann L'Estrange, undertakings belong to the New Hnnstanton Urban d. 1663 : there is also a brass to Edmund Grene and Agnes, Ditrict Council. hi!4 wife, c. qgo, and one of a man in armour, c. 1485 : tbPre is also a brass to Alice le Strange, wife of Laurence HUNSTANTON, a parish and village, is a healthful sea­ Olipbant, who died 2 Jan. r886: the porch was restored bathing place, with terntinal station at New Hunstanton, on in r864, in memory of the late Henry le Strange Styleman a branch from Lynn of the Great Eastern railway, about le Strange, d. 27 July, r862, and in 1894 the 15th centJury r mile from the old village, I 14 miles from London, 17 screen, which contains 12 painted panels of the Apostles, north-by-east from Lynn and 10 west from Burnbam Mar­ was restored and replaced within the sacrarium : on the ke1,. -The sands extend for 3 miles, and the batbin2" is north side is an Easter sepulchre, partly recessed and safe and agreeable. The church of St. Mary the Virgin richly canopied : the church affords 6oo sittings The i3 a noble structure of flint and freestone, in the regist!'r dates from the year 1538, but no entry occurs Decorated style, and consists of chancel, clerestoried nave, during the reig-n of Queen Mary: there is also a terrier of aisles, south porch and an embattled tower at the west t1.1t> time of Philip and Mary containing an inventory of end of the north aisle, eontaining one bell : there is an church furniture. The living is a vicarage, with the anciPnt Norman font, round which a pavement of rich r!'ctory of Ringstead Parva annexed, joint net yearly mosaic was laid by the late Henry le Strange : the stained value £265, including rB! acres of glebe, with residence, east window, a memorial to the lat-e Henry le Strange in the gift of Hamon le Strange esq. and held since 1893 Styleman le Stran2"e (d. 1862), was erected in 1867, by bv the Rev. Percy Clifford Stanley M.A. of Trinity Hall, his wife and children : there is a stained window in the Cambridge. The Odd.fellows bold their meetings monthly t10uth aisle, and· the south clerestory windows are also at the Neptune hotel. In Hunstanton there are a number filled with stained glass : the chancel contains a very fine of good hotels, including the le Strange Arms, the Golf -altar tomb with b'ras11 to Sir Roger le Strange, esquire of Links Hotel, entirt>ly rebuilt in 1904, the Neptune, the th~ body to Henry VII. ob .. 15o6, including his effigy in Connaught (private), the Sandringham, Golden Lion and 'Brmour, covered with an heraldic tabard, the hands being Globe, and an abundance of furnished houses and apart­ uplifted with the palms outward; above his head is a ments: there is also a good supply of bathing machines. helmet, with lambrequin and crest, and over all rises an Gibson's charity, consisting of a rent-charge of £28, is elaborate triple canopy, supportsd by pinnacles enriched appropriated equally between the poor and the church. with B niches, containing effigies of his an~tors, all in Hunstanton cliff, which rises to a height of about 6o fee'