58 BITTERING- PARVA. . [K~LLY'S

BITTERING PARVA (or Little Bittering) is a vil­ stones, each about 6! feet long : there are 100 sittings. lage and parish 3 miles north from the Wendling station The register dates from the year f733· The living is a on the Lynn branch of the Great Eastern railway and 5 rectory, net yearly value £7o, induding 45 acres of glebe, north-west from , in the Mid division of the' in the gift of Mrs. Wilberforce, a.nd held sine& 1904 by county, Launditch hundred, Mitford and Launditch petty the Rev. Reginald William Wilberforce M.A. of sessional division and union, East Dereham county court College, Cambridge. The site of the old Manor House, district, rural deanery of South , archdeaconry of a little distance west of the church, is surrounded by Lynn and diocese of . For civil purposes Little a. moat. Mrs. Wilberforce is lady of the manor and sole Bittering is united with the adjoining parish of Beeston landowner. The soil is loam and gravel. The chief and known as Beeston with Little Bittering, but they are crops are· wheat, barley and roots. The area and rate­ ecclesiastically separate parishes. The church of St. Peter able value are included in that of Beeston; the popu­ is a small building of flint and rubble in the Early English lation in 1901 was 44· atyle, consisting of chancel, nave, north porch and a Letters received from East Dereham arrive at 8 a.m, western bell-turret containing one bell: the reading desk Gressenhall is the nearest post, money order & tele­ and manorial pew have Jacobean panelling : the chancel graph office, about 2~ miles distant retains a pi~cina and sedilia: the font is Norman and of Pillar Letter Box, cleared at 7·45 a.m. & 5·45 p.m ~:ircular form: against the wall are two coped coffin The children attend the school at Longharn Wilberforce Rev. Reginald William M.A. (vicar), The Hall I Wharton Frederick Samuel, farmer • is a parish and pretty village, standing on an living is a rectory, with that of Framingham ~arl eminence, on the high road from Norwich to Bungay, annexed, joint net yearly value £250, including 46 acres about 3 miles south-east from Norwich, in the Southern of glebe and residence, in the gift of Mrs. C. Turner, and division of the county, petty sessional divi- held since 1887 by the Rev . .Alfred Edward ~~lston, who 11ion, hundred and union of Henstead, Norwich county r·esides at Framingham Earl. Bixley Hall, the property court district, rural deanery of Brooke (western division), of Russell James Colman esq. is now (1912) unoccupied. archdeaconry of Norfolk and diocese of Norwich. The The Earl of Rosebery K.G., K.T., P.C. who is lord of church of St. Wandregesilus, erected ~n 1868 on the site the manor, and Russell James Colman esq. of Crown of the ancient church of the same name, built in I272, Point, Norwich, are the sole landowners. The soil is a small edifice of flint with stone facings in the Gothic is mixed; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are wheat, style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, a vestry I barley and beans. The area is 66J acres; rateable on the north side and an ancient embattled western tower value, £1,245; the population in 19II was 158. containing one bell : there are various mural monuments Sexton, Albert Bracey. to the lamily of Ward, from 1530 to 1762, and to the · . . I P · f il Ea 1 f Ro b th t · d Letters through Norwich arnve at 7 a.m. The nearest nmross am y, r s o se ery, 1771: e s a1ne d & t 1 h ffi · t T b t t · d th "ft · 8 f th M" M t" money or er e egrap o ce 1s a rowse, a ou 1 eas w1n ow was e g1 , 1n I 77• o e " 1sses " ar m, .1 d" t t and th ere 1s· a memona· 1 w1n· d ow to J ane H.1c k·s, d . r 8 57, m1 e 1s an and a fine rood screen of oak: the church affords roe· j The children of th_is place attend the schools at sittings. The register dates from the year IS6I. The Newton & Frammgham Earl

Besant Major Waiter H. The Lodge CO~MERCIAL Spruce John, farmer · Gerhardt Madame Limmer Jame11 H. farmer Stimpson Arthur, farmer Grix Mrs. Garden house Shaw .Arthur, estate agent BLAKENEY (anciently called Snitterley) is a small the arms of the sees of and Norwich, and in a coast town and parish, 5~ miles north-north-west from panel on the western buttress of the south aisle are the Holt station on the Midland and Great Northern joint emblems of the Passion: the church, with the exception railway, 8 east from Wells, 26 north-north-west from Nor­ of the chancel, was entirely restored in 1883-7, under the wich and 124 from London, in the Northern division of the superintendence of Mr. Herbert J. Green, architect, at a county, Bolt hundred, petty sessional division and county cost of over £6,ooo, given mainly by Lord Calthorpe and court district, union, rural deanery of Holt the parishioners, the tower and outer walls being refaced and archdeaconry and diocese of Norwich. Blakeney har­ and the interior refurnished with elaborately carved oak bour is well situated for sheltering small vessels, and was benches : the pulpit, a. memorial to Charles and Hannab improved under an .Act of Parliament obtained in I8I7, Stewart Temple-Lynes, was presented by their children in so that vessels of ISO tons burden can approach the quay ; r886: the lectern and reading desk were the gift of the spring tides rise between 9 and 10 feet. This was for­ Tillard family : the ancient font has been raised on a. new merly a port called Blakeney and Cley, the jurisdiction of octagonal stone ba.~e : there are soo sittings : the chan­ which extended 30 miles along the coast from Mor~ton cel is now (1912) undergoing restoration at a cost of on the west to Bacton Coal Gap on the east; but in r88o about £z,ooo. The register dates from the year I538. it was made a part of the port of Lynn, where also The living is a rectory, united to those of Little Lang­ is the custom house. Very .few vessels are now (1912) ham, Glandford and Coc];thorpe, joint net yearly value employed, and the coasting trade, once considerable, [390, including 100 acres of glebe, with residence, in has rapidly declined. Henry Ill. granted a market, the gift of the Hon . .Mrs . .Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, and in the 31st of Ed~ard Ill. a statute was passed ani held since rgo6 by the Rev. David Lee Lee-Elliott regulating the fish trade, which was then carried on M.A, of Cambridge University. There is a Wesleyan to a considerable extent, and attracted a great number Methodist chapel and a Primitiye :Methodist chapel, built of Dutch merchants, several of whom fixed their residence in 1850. Charities formerly producing £g yearly, but in the town. The church of St. Kicholas, standing on an now considerably depreciated, are distributed in fuel eminence a little to the south of the town, about II5 feet and clothing. Blakeney Church Men's Club, a building above the level of the sea, is a handsome and spacious of brick and stone, erected in rgog, contains reading, edifice of flint and stone in the Early and Later English billiard and recreation rooms ; and in the parish are styles, consistin~r of cha.ncel, clerestoried nave of six golf links of nine holes. The trade is chiefly in coal, bays, aisles, north porch and a lofty embattled western timber and deals, oil-cake and manure; the exports are tower, about 104 feet in h!'ight, forming a conspicuous mostly corn. Here are some remains, consisting prin­ landmark, with bold angle buttresses and pinnacles cipally of . several fine arches, of an ancient monastery and containing one bell; and there is also a small of Carrnelites, or White Friars, founded by John Stormer beacon tower or turret at the north-east angle of the in I2(jO, · in which John de Baconthorpe, a learned chancel, which is generally believed to have been med divine and acute metaphysician, became a friar and for displaying a light or beacon for the guidance of ultimately Provincial of the English Carmelites ; he was mariners : the chancel, a. work of beautiful proportiom born here, and died in London in 1340. Claudius James and delicate workmanship, is all that now remains of the Ash esq. is lord of the manor and the chief landowner. Early English church; the roof is exquisitely grained in The soil is mixed, chiefly of a sandy nature. The area stone, with moulded ribs and carved bosses : the east is 1,432 acres of land, 8 of water, 130 of tidal water window is Early Decorated, and on the north side are and gro of foreshore; rateable value, [2,r86; the three stone sedilia: the chancel also retains an Easter population in rgr r was 708. sepulchre, founder's tomb and aumbries : the rood screen remains in situ, with the rood door on the north side: Post, "M. 0. & T. Office. Joshua Cook Parker, sub-post­ the nave, with its aisles, and the tower were re-erected in ma~ter. Letters should have Norfolk added. Delivery the rsth century, and are worthy examples of the Perpen­ commences at 7 a. m. & I.25 p.m,_ week days; dis­ dicular style: the oak roof of the nave is a fine example patches, 10.10 a. m. & 5.30 p.m.; sundays, delivered of hammer-beam construction with curved braces, and at 7 a.m. & dispatched 5.30 p.m~ Wall Box, West­ spandrels filled in with beautiful and intricate fret-work gate street, cleared 4.30 p.m. week da-ys only tracery : the north and south buttresses of the tower bear