DIRECTQRY.] . WITTON. 549 Rudd Wa.l.ter, boat owner Starling A.ustic Wallace, farmer Waits John Henry, boat owner Sim6 William Wailer, grocer Tungate William, farmer Winterton Provident Friendly Society .Smith Henry, carrier Waite Jas. Fisherman's Return P.H (Isaac Lake, sec) ia a parish and village surrounded by a park and woods. At Witchingham Old .xi miles north from Lenwade station on the Mirlland Hall resided John Norris, who founded the Divinity Pro­ and Great Northern joint railway, 9 north-eailt from fessorship at Cambridge, which bears his name, charging Verebam, and 9 south-west from , in the the Abbey farm at Bacton with an annuity for that pur­ Northern division of the county, Eynsford hundred and pose; he died in I777· The Warden and Scholars of New petty sessional division, St. Faith's union, Aylsham College, Oxf9rd, are the impropriators of the great tithes .c=ty cotart district, rural deanery of Sparham aml. and lords of the manor. William James Barry esq. Col. Bl"chdeaconry and diocese of . The river Wen- Frederic Hambleton Custance C.B., J.P. of Weston Old -sum flows on the south of the parish. The church of Hall, , and New College, Oxford, are St. Mary is an ancient edifice of flint, in the Per- the principal landowners. The soil is sand and loom; ~endicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, subsoil, clay and gra-vel. The chief crops are wheat, fiOuth porch and an embattled western tower containing roots, barley and hay. The area is 2,236 acres of land .2 bells: the font is ancient and richly carved: in the and 19 of water; rateable value, [3,127; the population chur.ch are many memorials of the Le Neve family: iR rgn was 488. •there are 250 ilittings. The register dates from the year 1539. The living is a vicarage, consolidated with LENWADE is a hamlet, on the Wensum, over which ilie rectory of Little Witchingbam, joint nllt yearly value there is a bridge of three arches, with a l!tation on z3oo, with residence, in the gift of New College, Oxford, the Midland and Great Korthern joint railway, I mile and held since rgn by the Rev. Percy Gethen M.A. of south of the church. All Saints' Mission church, ereclled that college. There are Primitive Methodist and United in r888, in connection with St. Mary's, at a cost of Methodist chapels here. .An allotment of 25a. 3r. up. of £6oo, is an edifice of red brick and will seat 120 per­ common land 'is for the benefit of poor parishioners sons. Here is a Primitive Methodist chapel, erected i11 legally settled here and being resident oceupien of land 1 9°5· at a cost of £320· ()r tenements in the parish. The church land of rsa. Parish Clerk, Arthur Gaskins. rop. is for the repair of the parish church. John Norris' Post, M. 0. & T. Office, Lenwade.-George E. Harvey, eharity of £r2 is for the education of 12 poor children : sub-postmaster. Letters via Norwich arnvt~ at 6.40 '()liver Le Neve's charity of zs. {derived from the rents a.m. & 12.30 & 3.30 p.m.; dispatched at 12.ro, 4 &:; of certain lands in ) is for bread to be dis- 7· ro p.m. week days only , tributed every Sunday among the poor, and 6s. yearly Wall Letter Box, at Vicarage, cleared at 7.25 a.m. & an Christmas Day: a donation from New College, Oxford, 6-40 p.m of 4 coombs of peas is distributed on Ash Wednesday Public Elementary School (mixed), erected about 1827, to poor inhabitants. There are also other rights and for 125 children; average attendanoe, 120; Arthur E. privileges belonging t{) the church, the poor and the Wager A.C.P. master inhabitants generally. Witchingham Hall, the seat of Lenwade Station, William H. Havis, master William James Barry esq. is a. large mansion of brick, Carriers to Norwich pass through from various places GREAT WITCHIXGHA!\L Dove George, farmer Arthurton Henry, harness maker &c Gray Henry, f:umer, River farm Binks John, carpenter PRWATE REs,IDENTS. Hall Walter, farm bailiff to Edward Childerstone Richard, blacksmith Barry Wm.Jas. J.P.Witchingham hall Stimpson esq. Church farm Cossey Robert, coal dealer Gethen Rev. Percy M.A.. (vicar), Howes Robert Breese, miller (water), Freeston Wm. coal mer. Railway stn Vicarage Eade's farm (letters through Reep- Harvey George E. draper & grocer, Roper-Caldbeck Major William C. ham, Norwich) Post office Lenwade lodge Wyand Benjamin Edmonds, farmer Howard Charles Horace, butcher (letters through Reepham,Norwich) Hubbard William, carpenter COMUERCUL. Lightening Edward, Bridge inn A.-thurton Thomas, farmer,Bla!_;kwatr LEXWADE. Pratt Horace Wm. King's Head P.H Eird Frederick Arthur, farmer, Manor Dunt Miss Pummell Thomas, pork butcher farm Knights Miss Sayer Bros. millers (water & steam) Brooke Wm. farmer, Clay Hall farm Sayer Robert F. White house &i farmers & corn &i flour merch!!nts, Camplin .A1bert,farmer, Old Hall frm COMMERCIAL. Lenwade Roller mills Dann \Valter, farmer l Adcock FredeTick, farmer Smith Frederiek, assistant overseer & Dicks John, gamekeeper to William Andrews Horace, shopkeeper rate collector, oil & potato merchant James Barry esq Andrews James, shoe maker Waters Robt. Arthur, wheelwright

LITTLE WITCHINGHAM is a parish 2~ miles Oxford, and held since rgrr by the Rev. Percy Gethen south-east from Reepham station on the East Norfolk. M . .A. of that college, and hon canon of Norwich who section of the Great Eastern railway, ~~ north-by-east resides at Great Witehingham. John Henry Gurney from Lenwade station on the Midland and Great P.sq. of Keswick Hall, William James Barry esq. and the Northern joint railway, 7~ south-west from A.ylsham, trustees of Norman's Charity School, Norwich, are the and 10 north-west from Norwich, in the Northern divi­ cbef landowners. Ernest Albert ShaTpin aolds the sion of the county, Eynsford hundred and petty sessional farm belonging 1lo Norman's eharity. The soil is mixea; division, St. Faith's union, Aylsham county court dis­ subsoil, clay and gravel. The ehief crops are wheat, trict, rllral deanery of Sparham, and archdeaconry and roots, barley and hay. The area is 743 acres; rateable . The church of St. Faith is a value, £.575; the population in I9II Wa!i 56. plain building of flint and stone, in the Perpendicular Letters received through Norwich at 9 a.m. The style, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle and an nearest mor.ey order &; telegraph office is at Great • embattled western tower containing one bell: there are Witching ham ;o sittings. The register dates from the year 1565. Letter Box, near Mr. Gayford's residence, cleared at The living is a rectory, consolidated with the vicarage 7·55 a.m. & 6.20 p.m. week days only of Great Witchingham, joint net yearly value £3oo, The children of this parish attend the school at Great including 52 acres of glebe, in the gift of New College, Witchingham . Gayford Harry, farmer, hall I .Sharpin Ernes11 Albert, farmer, Charity farm

WITTON, near Norwich, is a village and parish, 2 severill memorial wi.11.dows and a mural tablet to Major miles north from junction litation on the :K or­ Culley, who served with distinction in 17 actions, and wich and Yarmouth and sections of the Great died in 1884, and to his wife: in 1902 11he church was Eastern railway and 5 east from Norwich, in the Eastern new-roofed and refl.oored at a cost, with other work, of division of the county, and Walsham petty ses­ [300: a new organ was built in 1907: the interior is sional division, Blofield lm.ndred and union, Norwich seated with open oak. benches, affording 86 sittings. .county court district, rural deanery of Blofield and The register dates from the year 157I. The living is al"chdeaconry and diocelie of Norwich. The church of a rectory, co~olidated with that of Brundall, joint net Sl. Margaret is a small building of fliBt in the Early yearly value £277, wit.h 2r acres of glebe, and r~i­ English and Decorated styles, ltonsisting of chancel, denee, in the gift of A. R. Chambarlin esq. of Norwich, nave, 110nth ponh and a small round wel';tern tower and held since r8g8 by 1ihe Rev. Charles Marshall containing one bell : the stained wesi window is a C.litamberlin M.A. of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. William. memorial to Mr!!. Penrice, alld is dated 1~67: the H~rker esq. J.P. of Blofield Hall, is lord of the manor t!tained east window was insert6ld by a former rector, and the principal le.noowner. Th~t soil is mixed; sub­ w'lll.o also rebuilt th8 chancel in 1857: and there are soil. clay. The chil"f croJIS are wheat. barley aad