236 MERTON. NORFOLK. [ KELLY'S
Parish Clerk, John Buckle. Infants' School, erected by Lord Walsingham in 1874, for ·Letter Box cleared at 6.45 a.m. & 6.30 p.m. week days, & 30 children; average attendance 14; Mrs. Kate Kirk, g.rs a.m. on sundays. Letters through Thetford, via mistress Watton, which is the nearest money order & telegraph office The elder boys of this place attend Watton school, the girls Merton Hall is connected with the Estate office & with Wat attending the school at Thompson ton Post office by government telephone Walsingham Lord M.A., F.R.S., D.L., 1 Adcoek James, estate carpenter Matthews Martha & Charlotte (1\iisses), J.P. Merton hall; & 153 Piccadilly 1 Ames Charles, estate office clerk fariners W; 66a, Eaton square; 36 Lowndes 1 Chaston William, farmer Menzies Robert, agent to Lord Wal street & Carlton & White's clubs, j CookEdwd.shephrd.toLonlWalsingham singham London SW , Crane James, estate otfice clerk Stringer John, head gamekeeper to Lord Durrant John Hartley (private sec. to Day John,shepherd to LordWalsingham Walsingham Lord Walsingham) Gandy H. head gardener to Lord Willia msGera rd(Mrs. ),farmer, Broom hl Reid Rev. Arthur Morse M.A. Rectory Walsingham METHWOLD is a parish and small town on the road for keeping them in good repair. A sub-branch of Gurney's from Brandon to Lynn, 4 miles south-west from Stoke Ferry Bank (now Barclay & Co. Limited), at Thetford, is open terminal station on a branch of the Great Eastern railway here every Monday. A flourishing market for cattle and and 6 north-west from Brandon, in the South Western corn is held here on Mondays and a fair for cattle is held on division of the county, Grimshoe hundred and petty sessional April 23rd. The 'Varren, which formerly covered r,soo division, Thetford union and county court district, rural acres, is now under cultivation, to the extent of about one deanery of Cranwich south division, archdeaconry of Norfolk half, the remainder being used as a sheep-walk. The and diocese of Norwich. The church of St. George is an Crown, in right of the Duchy of Lancaster, is owner of the edifice of clunch and freestone, with a tower of flint and , manor and principal landowner. The soil is a mixture of freestone and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch fen peat, light loam, sandy and strong gault; subsoil, !.!balk
and a western tower, with a square lower stage and an 1 and sand. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and octagonal belfry. surmounted by an elegant stone spire and : turnips. The area is r3,370 acres ; rateable value, £5,924; containing a clock and 6 bells : the chancel is Decorated, but I the population in r8gr was, in J'IIethwold High Town, 917; has Perpendicular windows : the nave and tower are both in Hythe, r6s ; and on the Fen, 28o; total, r,362. Perpendicular, and the latter retains at its angles the bases Methwold Hythe, anciently called Otering-Hythe, I~
of pinnacles: the roof is of the rsth century, with alternate .. miles west-by-north of the town, is part of the parish and tie and hammer beams : the former are adorned with 1 consists of a few farmhouses, some cottages, two public shields and figures of cherubs, the latter supported by angels I houses and a small Wesleyan chapel. There are also a con
bearing wreaths, crowns or other emblems : the roof of the 1 siderable number of houses along the Sams cut, in the south• north aisle has handsomely moulded principals on grotesque ! western division of the fen, amounting to a hamlet and carved corbels : the chancel retains a Decorated piscina and . generally known as Poppy lot (originally spelt Poplot or there is one of Perpendicular date in the north aisle : the Powplot) ; a road, constructed through this district from church affords 370 sittings, 120 being free. The register · Feltwell to Southery, was opened in r881. dates from the year 1683. The living is a discharged vicar- I Parish Clerk and Sexton, Henry John Boldry. age, average tithe rent-charge £243, net yearly value £qo, Post, M. 0. & T. 0., 'f. M. 0., Express Delivery, S. B. & with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor and held Annuity & Insurance Oftice.-Robert Wright Flatt, sub- since r873 by the Rev. John Denny Gedge B. A. of Hertford postmaster. Letters arrive by mail cart from Stoke Ferry College, Oxford and surrogate. There was once an older S.O. at 4 35 a.m. & 3.25 p.m. ; delivered at 7 a.m. & church situated at the edge of the close on which still stands 3.30 p. m. ; dispatched at g. rs a.m. & 7-35 p.m the tithe-barn of the Augustinian priory of Brumwell (later Schools :~ Broomhill) founded by Sir H. de Plaiz, in the reign of King National School, erected in x858 & since enlarged to hold John, and dedicated to SS. Mary and Thomas, of which 200 children; a"f'erage attendance, r6o; it is principally various remains have been disinterred: it was probably the supported by the Duchy of Lancaster, which contributes church of the original Saxon settlement of the Buntings, by £8o yearly; Robert Edward Melbourne, ma'ster; infant which last name the lowest part of the village is still known. school, with 70 children; average attendance, 6o; Mrs. The Wesleyan chapel is a building chiefly of flint, erected in Melbourne, mistress 1832; the Primitive Methodist chapel, an edifice of brick National, Hythe (infants), erected in r875, for 20 children; and stone, was erected in r866. The charities amount to Miss Flora Rolfe, mistress £3o yearly. There are six almshouses, built in r888 by Carriers to Brandon.-Crisp, from Northwold, mon. wed. & Mr. W. J. Coote, who left the rent of one dwelling-house fri. ; Salmon, from Stoke Ferry, wed. & fri Eanham Edward, New hall Coates Edward, farmer, Hythe Haverson Agnes (Mrs.), thrashing ma• Banham Joseph John, Lion house Coates John, carpenter & joiner -chine proprietor Coote Miss Coates Wm. farmer &assistant overseer Horrex Antbony, Crown inn Farmer Rev. William (Wesleyan) Constable Phillips, jun. farmer Howes John, beer retailer Gedge Rev. John Denny 13.A., J.P. Constable WilliamJohn, farmer,Hythe HowesRobert, builder (vicar & surrogate), Vicarage Cooke John, farmer Hudson Samuel, farmer, Hythe King Miss Copeman & Melior, solicitors (attend Jackson Robert, grocer Sp-'incer Mrs mondays, ro till 4) King Susan (Miss), farmer Wliitmore John Cornish John Robert, relieving & vacci- Laws Richard, marine store dealer Wortley Henry nation oilicer, Methwold district & Lister Eliza (Mrs.),farmer, Cloughfarm COMMERCIAL. registrar of births,marriages & deaths Luddington Wm. Little, farmr.Littlepl Adcock Theophilus, watch & clock ma Thetford union Manning John, shoe maker Alger Robert, 11en. cattle dealer Durrant Waiter, Bell inn (market held Nevill George, farmer, Red house Alger Waiter, farmer here, monday) Parrott Fredk. Wm. farmer, Glebe farm Allen Jacob, baker & miller . Edwards Albert, butcher Payne Robert & Son, machine owners Armstrong John, shopkeeper Fendick John Foakes, farmer, Hythe Payne Robert, jun. corn & seed mer- Aspin Ja~es, fi~hmonger . 1 Fendick 'Villiam, farmer, Hythe chant & general commission agent Balaam l