DIRECTORY.] . · . 503 Watts Charles Ward, relieving & vaccination officer for Wright James & Co. ironmongers, Shire Hall terrace Wells district & relieving officer for Walsingham dis· Wright John (Mrs.), baker & corn chandler, High street trict, Holt road Wright Waiter, pork butcher, Market place Working Men's Club (T. W. Purdy, sec.), High street . . • , GREAT WALSINGHAM (or Old Walsingham) is here. The iron foundry and agricultural iinple- a parish and village on the Stiffkey river, I mile north- ment works here belonging to Mr. J. H. Cornish, employ east from Walsingham station on the Great Eastern rail- a large staff of workmen, and there is also a new steam way, in the Northern division of the county, North Green- roller mill, the property of Waiter and Herbert hoe hundred and petty sessional division, Walsingham Wright, Henry Lee-Warner esq. J.P. of Walsingham county court district and union. The church of All Abbey, is lord of the manor and chief landowne:r:. Saints, which stood a little north of St. Peter's, has almost Berry Hall is the residence of Thomas Spencer Walker entirely disappeared, but its ruins are still traceable esq. There are 44 allotments of one-eighth of an acre in a field adjoining Westgate House, occupied by Mr. each. The soil is mixed; subsoil, marl. The chiel John Howell. The church of St. Peter is an ancient crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips. The area Duilding of flint and rubble with stone dressings, in IS 2,170 acres; rateable value, £2,462; the population the Decorated style, consisting of nave, with clerestory, in 1901 was 374· aisles, south porch, vestry and a western tower contain- Parish Clerk, William Flatten. ing 3 bells·: there is a piscina at the , east end of Post, M. 0. 0., S. B. & A. & I. Office.-Mrs. Susannali each aisle: in 1870 a vestry was erected at the ex. Goggles, sub-postmistress. Letters via Walsingham pense of the Rev. John Lee-Warner: the church affords R.S.O. arrive 7.30 a. m. & 3.15 p.m.; dispatched at 300 sittings. The register dates from the year 1564. 9.25 a.m. & 6.20 p.m. ; sunday at 12.25 a.m. The The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £55· including nearest telegraph office is at Little Walsingham, I mile 2 acres of glebe, in the gift of Henry Lee-Warner distant esq. and is now (1904) vacant. A Wes!eyan chapel Public Elementary S'chool (mixed), built in 1875 at a was erected in 1895. Roman antiquities, chiefly cost of £7oo, for go children; average attendance, 8o; urns and sepulchral remains, have been found William Grant, master; Mrs. Grant, mistress ·Grant William Cog-~les Susannah (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Howell John, farmer, Westgate !house Hall Henry, Hill house Post office Howell Robert, ·hawker Walker Thomas Spencer, Berry hall Cornish John Henry, iron founder, Lewis Peter Fredk. Thrae Tuns P.H Wilson Isaac, The Hill engineer, agricultural implement Lindley Frederick,farm bailiff to Thos_ Woollard Edgar maker & agent & farmer, North Nor- Spencer Walker esq Wright Herbart folk iron works; branches, Faken- Platten William, parish clerk Wright Miss ham & Wells Tuck Robert, blacksmith lrright Waiter Doughty William, Half Moon P.H Walker Thomas Spencer, farmer COHl!lBRCIAL. Garrod Algernon I<'. farmer Wright Waiter & · Herbert, millers-. Armiger Georgina (Mrs.), shopkeeper Hall Robe-rt C. farmer, Hill house ·(steam roller),. bakers & farmers

WALSOKEN is a parish and village, adjoining Wis­ in 1891 wa! 2,771, and in 190I, 3,240 in the civil and~ bech, from which it is separated by a canal; the part 3,250 in the ecclesiastical parish and Urban District. adjacent to is called New Walsoken, and has Parish Clerk, Edward William Baker. extended very much during the last few years; it is WALSOKEN HUNGATE is a , formed under about half a mile from Wisbech station on the Great the provisions of the " Local Government Act, 1894," from Eastern railway, one mile from the Midland and Great that part of · civil parish in Walsoken Urban Dis­ Northern joint railway and 3 miles from Emneth sta­ trict, and is governed by that Urban Council. The area tion on the Great Eastern system, in the North Western is 42 acres; rateable value, £Ioo; the population in· division of the county, hundred and petty sessional divi­ 1901 was 10. sion of Freebridge Marshland, union and county court dis­ Town Sub-Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & A. & I. Office, Nor­ trict of Wisbech, rural deanery of Lynn Marshland, wich ;road, New Walsoken.-Henry Harvey, sub-post­ archdea-conry of_ Lynn and diocese of , and was master. Letters through Wisbech; collections ·at­ governed by a. Local Board of Health, but under the pro­ IO.I5 a.m. & 2, 3, 5 & 8.45 p.m.; sundays, 9 p.m. visions of the " Local Government Act, 1894" (56 and Telegrams can be handed in only at this. office, & tele-­ 57 Vict. c. 73), an Urban District Council has been estab­ graph money orders are issued, but not paid lished. The church of All Saints, standing a little off the Post & :Postal Order Office, Old Walsoken. Jas. Richard'. high road, is a large and ancient building in the Norman Carse, sub-postmaster. Letters through Wisbech arrive style, consisting of chancel with aisles, nave, aisles and an at 6.30. a.m. & 12.20 p.m.; dispatched at 6.30 a.m. &,, embattled western tower with spire containing 6 bells: the tower and west door.vav are Decorated with Geo- 12.30 & 7.40 p.m. The nearest mDney order office &. • telegra.ph office-for collection is at New Walsoken, but; metrical work ; crossing the aisles are fine screens of the nearest for delivery is at Wisbech, 2 miles distant the 15th century retaining traces of colour and gilding, which is also found on the nave roof: in the chancel URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL. is a memorial window to Richard Young esq. M.P. for in 1865: one acre of glebe land was Council }, 'Norwich road; meeting day, last saturday added to the churchyard in 1883, and the whole placed in '\\very month at n8 Norwich road. under the control of a Burial Board of 6 members. Members. The register dates from the year 1558. The living Retire in 1907. is a rectory, net yearly value £830, with 30 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of trustees, and held since 1871 Chairman, John O>ckett by the Rev. John Young, who is also a surrogate for the Vice-Chairman, Frederick Glennv. diocese. Here is a Primitive Methodist chapel. A ceme­ William H. Cook; Charles Kemp; George W. Miller; tery was formed in 1882; it is now under control of the & Eli Vassar. Urban District Council, acting as a Burial Board. The Officials. charities amount to £57• which is distributed yearly by tht~ trustees. Walsoken House is the residence of Arthur Clerk, Charles Ernest Jackson, 4 Union place, The William English esq. D.L., J.P. Capt. H. C. Crescent, Wisbech Metcalfe, of Inglethorpe Hall, is lord of the m<:~nor Treasurer, Francis Maltbv Bland. Wisbech of Walsoken Metcalfe; William Goddard Jackson Medical Officer of Heaith, Harry Groom B.A., M.D. esq. of Doddington, Northants, is lord of the manor Wisbech of Walsoken Popenhoe; and Edward Hugh Jackson esq. Surveyor & Sanita.ry Inspector, James Kerridge F.I.A.S. of 7 NOO'th Brink, Wisbech, lord of the manor of Walsoken n8 Norwich road Coleraine. The other principal landowners are John Assistant Surveyor & Assistant Sanitary Inspector, Thos. Cockett esq. The Chestnuts, and Alfred Cockett esq. of M. KeNidge, uS Norwich road The Mount, New Walsoken, Dr. Bellamy, President of Collector, Tom E. Robbins, I Duke street St. John's College, Oxford, Lieut.-Col. Edward Southwell Trafford, of Wroxham, and Mr. Frederick Glenny. Public Element-ary Schools. The soil is loam ; subsoil, clay. The chief crepll! are Mixed (formerly National), erected, with masters resi­ wheat, peas, potatoes and market garden prodncf'. dence, in 1859, & enlarged in 1892, for 143 children; Walsoken is the centre of a great fruit-growing district, average attendance, 124; Bryan William Pywell, master the principal fruits grown being gooseberries, appl~ Norwich Toad, New Walsoken, erected in 1878, for 125 pears. plums, strawberries and raspberries. The aren boys, 125 girls & IIO infants; average attendance, 140 is 4,862 acres of land, 5 of water, 12 of tidal water and boys, 136 girls & u6 infants; Harry Davis, master; 10 of foreshore; rf\tf>able value, £14,677; the population Mrs. Annie Davis, mistress ; :Miss Yates, infants' mist