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272 MOULTON ST. MARY. NORFOLK. [ K:ELLY'S MOULTON ST. MARY is a scattered parish 2 he resides. The poor have the benefit of £12 Ios. miles north from Cantley station on the Norwich, annually, arising from the rent of an allotment of about Yarmouth and Lowestoft sections of the G. E. rail 10 acres, awarded them in 1803. Viscountess Massereene way, 12 east from Norwich and 9 west from Yarm<mth, and Ferrard, who is lady of the manor, Magdalen Col in the Eastern division of the county, Blofield and lege, Oxford, and Mr. Denny Wright are the chief Walsham petty sessional division, Walsham hundred, landowners. The soil is light mixed; subsoil, princi Blofield union, Norwich county court district, rural pally clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats &c. deanery of Blofield and archdeaconry and diocese of The number of acres is 1,039; rateable value, £1,297; Norwich. The church of St. Mary is an ancient build the population in Ign was 219. ing of flint in the Early Norman style, consisting of Parish Clerk, Robert Chapman. chancel, nave, south porch and a round western tower containing one bell: the church was restored, reseated Post Office.-Adam W. Collins, sub-postmaster. Let and new roofed in 1903 at a cost of £68o : there are ters from Norwich arrive at 6.30 a. m. & 4· IS p.m. ISO sittings. The register dates from the year ISD9· for callers only; dispatched at 6.20 a. m. & 4·S p.m.;. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £128, includ there is no sunday post. Acle, about 2 miles distant,. ing 33 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of is the nearest money order & telegraph office Viscountess Massereene and Ferrard, and held since Public E~ementary School (mixed), built in I871, for 1809 by the Rev. Ralph William Nevill M.A. of Keble 41 children; average attendance, 33; Miss Florence College, Oxford, who is also rector of Beighton, where Bugg, mistress Gillett Miss, Ash Tree house Du Rose Henry, market gardener; Thirkettle William Robert, farmer, Wright Denny, Manor hall cucumbei'S, tomatoes & cut flowers fruit grower, carting contractor &c- Wright Samuel, Morley house Flint George Sidney, Golden Anchor Wright Benjamin, farm bailiff ,to D. P.H . Wright esq. Halls farm COMMERCI AI.. Hovells Matthew, farmer Wright Denny, farmer & landowner, Chapman Robt. carpenter & parish elk I Hub bard George, farmer, Kennells Manor hall, Ash Tree & Halls frm!f Collins Adam W. boot & shoe maker, Kerridge Allan, farmer, Grove house Wright Samuel, farmer, Morley ho Post office Ransome Robert, blacksmith , Wymer Robert Jacob, bricklayer MOULTON ST. MICHAEL (or Great Moulton) is esq. and held since 1889 by the ~·-~·· Theophilus Dacre a parish and village 2 miles north from Tivetshall station Chute M.A. of Keble College, Oxford. Here is a !!mall and 3 south from Forncett station, both on the Ipswich Baptist chapel, erected in 18go. The town land of roa. and Norwich section of the Great Eastern railway, and g or I4P· (part in Moulton and part in .A.slacton) produces south-by-east from Wymondha.m, in the Southern division about £30 yearly, which is divided between the of the county, Depwade hundred, petty sessional division school, the church and the poor. Samuel Hammond and union, Wymondham county court district, rural in 1744 left £20, which was lent towards building a deanery of Depwade, archdeae<Jnry of Norfolk and diocese cottage; the interest, amounting to 2os. yearly, of Norwich. There were formerly two parishes, called is given to the poor in bread at Christmas. Moulton respectively Great and Little Moult on, but the church of windmill is believed to be the oldest in Norfolk, bui the latter, dedicated to All Saints, was demolished in is now disused. The manor is owned jointly by Mrs. IS70; its site, which is about a mile from the present John Farrow Betts and John Wilson Gilbert esq. The church, is still called "The Sanctuary." The church of soil is clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, St. Michael is a small building of flint with stone dreas- barley and beans. The area is 1,398 acres; rateable ings in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, value, £2,133; the population in rgu was 318. nave, north aisle, south porch and low embattled western Post Office'.-Miss Harriet Ellen Lincoln, sub-post- tower containing one bell: in 1887 the church was corn- n'istress. Letters through Long Stratton, Norfolk, pletely restored; a new roof and seveml new windows arrive at 7_25 a~m. & S· IS p.m. ; no sunday delivery; were erected, and the interior re-floored and re-seated at _ a.m. & 6. p.m. Long Stratton is di~patched 8 45 35 throughout, under the supervision of Mr. H. Green, archi- the nearest money order office & Tivetshall station tect, of Norwich, and now affords xso sittings: in the (which is closed on sundays), 2 miles distant, the churchyard is a fine tomb of the 14th century, without nearest telegraph office inscription ; there is also a stone to a member of the Wykeham family. The register dates from the year rs6o. Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1874· fo!' The living is a rectory, net yearly value £280, with 20 76 children; average attendance, SI ; Miss A. M. Earl, acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of C. L. Chute mistress Bett@ Mrs Herne .A.nna Maria (Mrs.), farmer, M ayes Alfred, farmer Chute R~v. Theophilus Dacre M.A. Bridge farm Perfitt John Henry, farmer Rectory Herne James Chaney, farmer, Wood- Piltter Oswald, carpenter Kett Miss row farm Potter Robert, bricklayer COMMERCIAL. Herne Leonard John, farmer & brick- Sherwood Ernest, farmer & agent .A.ldrich George, thrashing machine layer, Laburnum farm for Packard's manures & Parry & traction engine proprietor Herne Walter Jas. farmer, Gore farm cakes. Telegrams, "Sherwood, Aldrich William, Fox & Hounds P .H Howlett Eliza (Mrs.), farmer Tivetshall" Bales William, farmer Jolly Horace, thatcher Smith William, farmer Betts William, farmer Lincoln Harriet Ellen (Miss), shop- Smith William George, farmer Cole Alfred, farmer keeper, Post office Tunmore William, farmer Drew Herbert John, New inn Manser George, farmer ~ Werneking George, farmer Fox Henry, farmer Martin George, farmer Wilson William, farmer MULBARTON is a pleasant village and parish (with the ir:terior thoroug-hly l"estored and reseated: in 1887 Kenningham), scattered round a green of 47~ acres, I~ a new organ was built at a cost of £125: there are miles west from Swainsthorpe station on the Ipswich 28;:, sittings. The register dates from the year IS47· and Norwich section of the Great Eastern railway, and The living is a rectory, with that of Kenningham S miles south-west from Norwich, in the Southern annexed, joint net yearly value £4oo, including division of the county, Swainsthorpe petty sessional 73 acres of glebe., and residence, in the gift of John division, Humbleyard hundred, Henstead union, Nor- Henry Steward esq. of East Carleton, and held since wich county court district, rural deanery of Humble- I907 by the Rev. Edward Ewer Ward B.A. of Jesus yard, archdeaconry of Norfolk and diocese of Norwich. College, Cambridge. Kenningham has been annexed to The church of St. Mary Magdalen is an ancient Mulbart<Jn since 1452: the church has long since gone structure of flint in the Early English style, consisting to decay, and no vestige of it now remains. There is of chancel, nave, sonth porch and an embattled western a Primitive Methodist chapel here, erected in 1900. tower containing 6 bells, recast and rehung and a sixth The Benevolence Lod'ge of the Manchester Unity of bell added in 1904 at a cost of £roo: the chancel and Oddfellows, formed Feb. 3, 1843, consists of about soo south windows have some stained glass, and there is a members, including juveniles; Mr. John Thrower, of memorial window, placed in I9o6, to the late Mrs. East Carleton, is secretary. Dr. William Richardson, a Wingfield, of Mulbarton Hall: the chancel retains a clergyman of this place, and .A.gnes his wife were the piscina: there are several marble tablets to the Rich parents of Sir Thomas Richardson kt. Lord Chief Jus family, 16s1; the family of Turner, 1875; Mrs. Sarah tice of the King's Bench in the reign of Charles I. and Scargill, ob. 168o; and the Rev. Benjam'in Lany, ob. some time Speaker of the House of Commons, who was I766; Agnes, wife of Dr. William Richardson, and baptised at Hardwick 3 July, 1569. Rich's charity of mother of the Lord Chief Justice Richardson, wa3 10 acres produces £2o, which is distributed yearly. buried here 6 April, IS82: since 1875 the porch has Benjamin Bennett left in r879 £Ioo, the interest to be been restored and a north aisle and vestry added, and distributed in bread during the winter months. John .