• DIRECTORY.] . PULHAN ST. MARY MAGDALEN. 399 .Prangley Rev. Charles Wilton (vicar), Bell Waiter Wm. farmer, Bethel farm Greenacre William, marsh farmer Vicarage Belson James William, market gardnr Moy James, farmer CO»MERCIAL. Bensley Mary Ann (Mrs.), mrkt.grdnr Myhill Edward, farmer Blaxall John (Mrs.), farmer Norfolk Broads Yachting Co. Limited Amis Charles George,grocer & beer ret Bristow Edward, miller (wind) (The) (Waiter Woods, local mgr) Applegate Frederick, farmer ('William Boyce, manager) I Playford John, farmer, Hall farm A.pplegate George, reed merchant Brooks Frederick, boot maker Pollard Samuel, grocer, Post office .A.pplegate George, jun. boat pro- Feltham Frederick W. assistant oversr Popay Waiter James, Falgate inn P.H

prietor, Rose cottage Francis John, station master 1 Powley Samuel, farmer -Applegate Robert,aparts.Causeway cot George James, farmer Sloper Edward, farm bailiff to W. W . .Bailey Henry, farmer George Waiter, blacksmith Bell esq Balls.William Jas. farmer & landownr George William Shepherd,wheelwright Watts James, shopkeeper 'Beevor Jamea, farm bailiff to Thomas I Grapes Charles, marsh millman Youngs Alfred. farmer

Slipper esq . 1 Grapes Samuel S. carpenter 1 PUDDING NORTON is a small parish about Ii of University College, Durham, who is also sinecure rector mj)ea south from sta~on on the and of Pensthorpe and vicar of Hempton, where he resides. Wslls section of the Great Eastern railway, in the North Frederic .A.ugustus Morse-Boycott esq. is lord of the manor Western division of the county, Gallow hundred and petty and owner of the entire parish. The soil is chiefly a sessional division, Walsingham union and county court rich loam ; subsoil, clay; producing excellent barley, .diitrict, rural deanery of North Brisley and Toftrees, wheat and green crops. The parish contains 840 statute archdeaconry of Lyon and diocese of . The acres; rateable value, £525; the population in I90I church of St. Margaret fell into ruins many years ago, was 48. but portions of the tower and other parts of the fabric Letters through Fakenham, the nearest money order . are still standing. The living is a sinecure rectory, net •& yearly value £8, in the gift of A. H. Browne esq. and telegraph office, I! miles distant held since I895 by the Rev. Samuel Lee Coverley B.A. The children of this place attend Colkirk schoo1 Chambers Miss J Childs Thomas, farm bailiff to Mrs. Dixon Mrs. M. M. farmer &; land- M. M. Dixon owner, Norton hall

PULH AM ST. MARY MAGDALEN (commonly esq. Alfred Clayton Cole esq. of 64 Port~nd place, London called ) is a parish and small town with a W. John Matthew Barnes esq. of Mornmgthorpe, William station on the Waveney Valley branch of the Great Nurse and William Baxter esqs. The soil is heavy; aub­ Eastern railway, I5 miles south from Norwich, 4 north- soil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, peas and by-west from Harleston and I04 from London, in the beans. The area is 2,984 acres; rateable value, £3,987; Southern division of the county, Earsbam hundred and the population in I90I was I,OI4, including IO officers petty sea11ional division, Depwade union, Harleston county and I48 inmates in Depwade union workhouse. oourt district, rural deanery of Redenhall, archdeaconry Parish Clerk and Sexton, William Roope. of Norfolk and . The church of St. Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., E. D., P. P., S. B. & Mary Magdalen is an ancient building of flint, with stone A. & I. Office.-Mrs. Lucretia Churchyard, sub·post• dre.ssings, in the Perpendicular and Early English styles, mistress. Letters arrive through Harleston at 7·30 consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, north porch and an a.m. & 3 p.m. & dispatched at I2-30 & 5.30 p.m.; embattled western tower containing a clock and 8 bells: sundays, arrive 7.50 a. m. ; dispatched IO. IS a. m. Pillar there are piscinre in the chancel and south aisle, and near Letter Box, near the Railway station, cleared at 5.30 th8 sou~ doQr is a holy-water stoup: part Qf the roof p.m.; sundays at :to.I5 a.m at the east end of the nave is decorated with 14th century paintings of 6 angels, sacred mono~rams and other PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS. devices, restored in I873: the space between the roof of Cemetery, Robert Borrett, clerk the nave and the chancel arch was filled in I895 with a Cemetery (Nonconformist), Coles Common, Robt. Borrett, painting of the Ascension as a memorial to Mrs. Amelia clerk St. George Turton and her grandson, Gerala Meysey Fire Engine Station, William Roope, superintendent Fellows, eldest son of the Rev. Spencer Fellows, the Police Station for Pulham Division of Norfolk Constabu­ present rector: there are memorial windows to the Rev. lary, Francis Southgate, superintendent, 2 sergeants &; William Frost B.A. of Thorpe-next-Norwich, d. 28 Dec. IS constables 1875• and to his widow, besides others to the Cole famiiy; DEPWADE RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL. and the church contains various mural tablets and a num­ ber of ancient and inscribed stones on the floor: in 1873 Meets at the Workhouse on alternate mondays at IO a.m. the church was restored and a vestry, n.-w font and Chairman, George Symonds, Thelveton, near pulpit added, and reseated with chairs, at a total cost of Clerk, Albert Edward Scarlett, £I,8oo, and the chancel has since been beautifully deco­ Treasurer, Henry Birkbeck, Barclay &; Co's. Bank, Disa rated. During the restoration a locker for a processional Medical Officer of Health, John Charles Reynolds Robin- crGss, about 8 feet in height by I foot wide, was discovered son, Harleston behind the south entrance and has been renovated and Sanitary Inspectors & District Surveyors & Districts:­ furnished with a new cross. On the floor of the church Eastern Division, Charles W. Whitewood, Pulham St. .are stone11 inscribed to Thomas Claxton I68I, and Thomaa Mary the Virgin; Western Division, William A. Read, Palgrave 1726: in 1898 a new organ waa placed in the Stratton St. Mary, Long Stratton church, the cost being defrared by subscription: there DEPWADE UNION. are 350 aittings. The register dates from the year I538. The living is a reetory, net yearly value £400, with resi­ Board day at zo a.m. alternate mondaya at the Pulham dence, in the gift of the Crown, and held since I87o by workhouse. the Rev. Spencer Fellows, {)f •Magdalene College, Cam­ On March 25th, I902, the union of Guiltoross was bridge, rural dean of Redenhall, chaplain of Depwade abolished, the parishes of , , Roy­ union and surrogate, and J.P. for Norfolk. There is a don, & added to Depwade union Wesleyan chapel and a Primitive Methodist chapel at The union comprise& the following places: , Aah­ Colegate end. A cemetery of I acre, adjoining the church, wellthorpe, , Billingford, Bressingham, Brock­ was consecrated May ISt, I86o, and there is a cemetery dish, , Burston, , Denton, Dickle­ of about half an acre for Nonconformists at Colas Common, with Langmere, Diss, , Fersfield, Forn­ about I! miles from the church: both are under the cett St. Mary, St. Peter, Fritton, Fundenhall, control of the Parish Council. The village reading room, Gissing, Moulton, Hapton, Hardwick, , built at the Pxpense of John Fisher esq. is in commemora­ , Needham, Pulham St. Mary Magdalen, tion of the Diamond Jubilee of Her late Majesty Queen Pulham St. Mary the Virgin, , 'Victoria, has a small library, and is supplied with the Roydon, Rushall, Scole with Thorpe Parva &; Frenze, London and local papers, magazines and various games. Shelfanger, Shelton, Shimpling, , Stratton St. A small estate here used to be held by cornage aenice or Mary, Stratton St. Michael, Tacolnestone, , the blowing of a horn at the opening of the Manor Court. Tharston, Thelveton (or Thelton), Thorpe Abbots, The weekly market formerly held here on Wednesdays ha. Tibenham, Tivetshall St. Margaret, Tivetshall St. Mary, remond to Harleston. There WIUI also a cattle fair, now W acton, Winfarthing & W ortwell. The population of extinct. Pulham Hall, once the residence of a younger the union in I901 was 23,859; area, 83,959 acres; rate­ branch of the Percies, Earls of Northumberland, is now able value in I904, £n4,2I6 the property and residence of George Leggett esq. The Chairman of the Board of Guardians, George Symonds ·trustees of the late George Copeman esq. are lord• of Olerk to the Gua!'dians &; A.aaeasment Committee, Alben the manor. The principal landowners are George Leggett E. Scarlett, Loni Strattoll