DIRECTORY.] . GREAT CRESSINGHAM. 89

dispatched at 9.20 a. m. & 5 p.m. Burnham Market is by Earl Spencer, & supported by voluntary contributions : the nearest telegraph office the schools jointly hold 1 Bo children; average attend- Schools :- ance, go ; John Abel Arnett, master ; Mrs. J. A. Arnett, National School (boys, girls & infants), erected in 1849, & mistress . rebuilt in 1883, at a cost of £250, & enlarged in 1895 Carrier to -Benjamin Francis, tues. thur. & sat D' Angibau Rev. George 1\'I.A. (curate) Everitt Thomas, farmer & proprietor of Overton GeorgeWilliam, grocer & baker Emerson Robert, Creake abbey Goodman's ointment, Shammer farm Reading Room (Rev. G. D'Angibau,sec) Everitt Thomas, Shammer farm Francis Tienjamin, beer retailer&carrier Rix William, assistant overseer Lloyd Right Rev. Arthur Thomas D. D. Hales Robert, Jolly :Farmers inn Sandell James, carter & farmer (Suffragan Bishop of Thetford & Arch- Hammond Henry, baker Sands James, bricklayer deacon of Lynn), The Rectory Hendry Charles, baker & farmer Smalls John, basket maker "'right Wilham, Hall farm High Edmund, wheelwright Smalls Joseph, basket maker COMMERCIAL. Howell Benjamin, blacksmith, wheel- Walker Susan (Miss),draper &stationer, Adcock Hezekiah, shoe maker wright, carpenter, lift, gate, trough, Post office Alegood James, Victoria Arms P.H bin maker &c.: & at South Creake Walker Zachariah, outfitter, & agent for Bambridge Martin, blacksmith & farmer Hudson William, farmer; & at Quarles Norfolk to the N atlonal Agricultural Bane William, grocer, draper & general Keeler Hobert, farm bailiff to 1\'Ir. Laborers' Union supply stores William Hudson, Wringate farm Wasey Frederick, shopkeeper Bygott Hobert, farmer, Cross house Leeder Edward, grocer "'right William, agent for Earl Spencer, Christie Archibald James, farmer National Agricultural Laborers' Union Hall farm Ebdale James Robert, truss maker (Zachariah Walker, sole agent fJr Emerson Robert, farmer, Creake abbey Norfolk) SOUTH CREAKE is a parish and village on the road the purchase of land, the rent of which was to be expended from Burnham Market to Fakenham and Lynn, 4 miles in like manner; this land now lets for£ 15 a year : Mrs. south from Burnham Market railway station on the Lynn Dorothy Woodhouse, by will, dated 1640, left 2os. to the and 'Veils section of the Great Eastern railway, 7 south­ minister in consideration of his preaching two sermons west from Wells and 21 north-east from Lynn, in the North yearly, and 3os. to the poor of the parish, the half to be paid Western division of the county, Brothercross hundred, the same days the sermons are preached; the present Smithdon and Brothercross petty sessional division, Dock­ yearly value of this gift is about 20 guineas, of which 5os. ing union, Little 'Valsingham county court district, rural is still paid for the two sermons and the dole of bread, and deanery of Burnharn, archdeaconry of Lynn and diocese of the remainder given to the National school fund: the town Xorwich. A small rivulet rising here, falls into the sea at land charity of 12 acres lets for £12 a year, which is given Burnham Overy Staith. The church of St. Mary the Virgin, to the National school: there is aho a fuel allotment of 23 situated on a slight eminence, is a large and ancient struc­ acres of land, the rent of which now (1896)£23 yearly, is ture of flint with stone dressings, in the Perpendicular style, expended in coals and distributed to the poor of the parish and consists of a chancel, nave with clerestory, aisles, '\restry, at Christmas: the present annual value of the charities south porch and a western tower containing 5 bells : a few (1896) is about £IOo. About half a mile south-west from of the windows in the aisles and clerestory are partially tilled the church is a remarkable Saxon fortification, the road to with ancient stained glass : there is an oak rood ~creen, and a which is called "Bloodgate," from a tradition that a great large and massive iron-bound oak chest, lined with cedar and slaughter took place here in a battle between the Saxons and having 5 locks : the font is octagonal and exhibits some good Danes. The Marquess Townshend, who is lord of the manor carving, though much disfigured : the church is seated with and impropriator, the Earl of Leicester K.G. and Davy open benches, affording soo sittiugs. The register dates from Turner Belding esq. are 1 he principal landowners. The soil the year 1538, and is in a good state of preservation. The is mixed, productive and cultivated ; subsoil, chalk and living is a discharged vicarage, a,·erage tithe rent-charge gravel. The chief crop;;; are wheat, barley, turnips, mangold £326, net yearly value £271, with 3 roods of glebe and resi­ wurtzel and seeds. The area is 4,175 acres; rateable value, dence, in the gift of the Marquess Townshend, and held since £3,817; the population in 1891 was 882. 1888 by the Hev. Spencer James Compton M.A. of Caius Parish Clerk, Samuel Crisp. College, . The Congregational Chapel is a plain Post & M. 0. 0., S. 13. & Annuity & Insurance Office.­ brick building, erected b. 1783, with a small burid ground Thomas Heyhoe Oliver, sub-postmaster. Letters received and a residence for the minister adjoining ; a school room was through Fakenham at 7.15 a. m. & 5 p.m. & dispatched. at added in 1894; the Primitive Methodist chapel, opened in 9.50 a.m, & 5.30 p.m. week days only. The nearest tele­ 1883, is of red and white brick, with stone dressings. The graph office is at Burnham Market. Wall Letter Box Odd Fellows' Hall was built in 1 88g. Charities :-Isaac Lane, neal' the Ostrich, cleared. at 9·55 a.m. & 5.30 p.m. week in 1675, left£ Ioo for the purchase of land, the rent to be days only expended in the distribution of coals during the winter and National School (boys, girls & infants), for 180 children; x6 penny loaves every Lord's day : the present value is £31 average attendance, 16o; Alban Harris, master; Mrs. yearly and the Sunday dole of bread is still continued ; £ r5 Louisa Rarris, mistress a year is expended in coals and other necessaries for such of Carriers to Fakenham.-William Jex, daily; Benjamin the poor of the parish as are 6o years of age, and widows : Francis, passes through from , tues. thurs. Mrs. Elizabeth Pell, daughter of the aforesaid, left £100 for & sat Belding Davy Turner Dewson Robert, beer retailer Oliver Thomas Heyhoe & Son, farmers, Compton Rev. SpencerJas. M. A. Vicarage GriggsJas.farmer,LeicesterSquare farm grocers & drapers, Post office Cook George Ringer, Manor farm Hastings Alfred, Chequers P.H.& tailor Oliver Hannah Maria (Mrs.), brewer Griggs James, Leicester Square farm Ilastings Frcderick, butcher & maltster Hutt Rev. Frederick (Congregational) Hastings Frederick, tailor & beer retlr Plane Da wson, poultry & pig clealer Sheringham Hubert Valentine Bowe Robert, cowkeeper Reading Room (Alban llarris, sec) Howell Benjamin, blacksmith, wheel- Seaman Charles, baker COMMERCIAJ,, wright, carpenter, lift, gate, trough, Sheringham Hubert Valentine, farmer Beavers Robert, tailor bin maker &c. ; & at North Creake Smalls Alfred, carpenter & builder Cartwright Llewellyn, grocer & draper Jex William, carrier Walker Martin, Black Swan P.H Chasney Frederick, shoe maker &shpkpr J ones Charles, bootmaker WaseyCharles, builder,carpenter &joiner Clements John, farmer, Morley's farm Keable William, wheelwright 'Vasey Frederick, shopkeeper & builder Cook Geo. Ringer, farmer, Manor farm : Langley Frank, Fleece inn P.H Wasey Matthew, boot & shoe ma.&baker Creamer William, Rising Sun P.H Lunness John, horse slaughterer Wasey Thomas, baker · Crisp Robert, Ostrich P.H Oddfellows Hall(Zachariah Walker,sec) Whisker George, blacksmith GREAT CRESSING HAM is a parish and village on the ' in the north aisle is also filled with stained glass : the chancel river ·wissey, 5 miles west from ·watton station and 4~ south- and south aisle retain piscime, and in the porch is a holy water west from Holme Hale station, both on the Lynn and Thet- stoup : the roof is of oak with richly carved heads : there ford line of the Great Eastern railway, and 6 south from is a carved oak screen, and the font has an oaken canopy: Swaffham, in the South Western division of the county, the walls bear tablets to Sarah Lobb, 1748 : Thomas Lobb, South Greenhoe hundred and petty sessional division, Swaff- 1749; the Rev. Edwal'd Cha.mberlayne M. A. 1773, and his ham union and county court district, Cranwich rural wife Elizabeth (Grey), 1751, and there are brasses to William deanery, archdeaconry of Lynn and . Smith, ob. 1596, and Dorothy, his wife, ob. 1629, and to The church of St. Michael is a noble building of stone in the Richard Kytle : the church was restored in 1864 and the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave with clcrestory, tower in 1883: the interior was partially renovated in 1885, aisles, south porch and a western tower containing a clock and affords 300 sittings. The register dates from the year and 3 bells: there is a memorial window to the wives of the 1557. The living is a rectory, with that of Bodney annexed, Rev. Charles Taylor B.A. late rector (1836 81), to whom average tithe-rent charge (Cressingham) £390, joint net there is also a memorial window: the tracery of the windows yearly value £354, with 53 acres of glebe and residence, in