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mnECTORY.] NORFOLK .. IIOLT.J 179{ l'rimitive Methodist <:hapel, built in 1875- The poor's land Sexton, Francis Frohawi:. -consists of ua. 3r. 9P·· the present rent of which, £22, is Post Office.~Henry Potter, suli-~11~master. Letters are ·distributed in coals. There are five manors-viz. Hunstan­ received through Lynn by mail -HI.rt, arrive at 7 a.m. & ton-with-Mustrels, Hingstead-witb-llolme and ·N orthall, of are dispatched at 5-5 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, which Hamon le Strange esq. D.L., J.P. of Hunstanton but not paid. The neaTest money order & telegraph office Hall1 i!l lord and Holme-next-the-Sea (late Holkhams and i!'l at Thornham · 1 Eerrys) and Hoods-iu-Holme, of which Reginald H. Blyth esq. is lord. The chief landowners ara Hamon le Strange A School Board of fh·e members was formed July 14, 1875' and Reginald H. Blyth esqrs. the trustees of Henry Nelson G. Whitby, New Hunstanton, clerk to the board & attend­ ancl Mrs. Whitty. The soil is rich and productive ; the sub-. ance officer 'SOil is chiefly chalk. The chief crops are wheat, barley, tur­ Board School (mixed), built in 1843 at a cost of £2oo, for 6;3 nips, beans and mangold-wurtzel. The area is r,6go acres children; average attendance, 6o; Miss Lucy Emrns, Norwich, xB north-by-east from Dereham, ~2 _north-east born here~ 1758 and died in 18.22. William Withers esq. from Fakenham, 10 west-by-south from Cromer al}d 123 who wrote several works on the rearing and planting of from London by road, in the Northern division of the county, forest trees, was also a native of Holt.. Thomas Cooper, Erpingham uoion, Halt hundred, rural deanery of Holt and master of the Grammar school during part of the 17Lh arcbdeaconry and diocese of Norwich. The word •: holt," century, js said to have been hanged in front of. the school­ in Sa:x:on, signifies a wood, whence it is ~nferred that the house for his adherence. tq the cause of Charles J. In town was surrounded by timber. In the reign of Edward 18xo the commons and heaths that surrounded the town the Confessor it was held in royal demesne and after the were enclosed for cultivation:. 120. acres were ~Hotted for .Conquest the lordship belonged to the family of De Vaux, or the supply of fuel and pasturage to certain householders De Yallibus. The towu, remarkable for the purity of its air, whose yearly rent is under £,1o, and .on the east side, is pleasantly situated on rising ground, in the midst of a towa"ds Crome:rr, are now handsome and thriving planta­ fertile district, and commands a delightful prospect of the tions of forest trees, interspersed with dwelling housea. ·surrounding• country : in the year 1708 a destructive fire John Henry Gurney esq. of Keswick Hall, is lord of the .consumed nearly every house and building in the town, manors of Rolt, Holt Bales and Holt Market. The Fish­ .including the market stalls, and greatly injured the church. mongers' Company are lords of the manor of Holt Pereers . 'The town is paved and is lighted with gas, from works on The chief landowners are John Rogers esq. and the trustees :.Spouts Common; the property of " limited company and of the late George Barker. The soil is light and the land supplied with water from works erected in r885 by the in a high state of cultivation! The area is 2,996 acres of Erpingbam Rural Sanitary Authority ; these include a land and 13 of water; rateable value, £6,t6x ; the po,pu.­ to,ver of red brick in the Shirehall Plain, 56 feet in height., lation in x89r was I,750. with a tank holding rs,ooo gallons; the town has also been Parish Clerk, George William fisher, thoroughly drained, and the total cost of the waterworks :and drainage was over £5,ooo. The church of St. Andrew Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express belivery, S. B. & & is an edifice in the Decorated and .Perpendicular styles, Annuity Insurance Otfice (Railway Sub-Office-+-Letters should have R.S.O. added).-Samuel Critoph Clarej ·consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and a western postmaster. Letters are received from Dereham at tower containing a clock and one bell; it once had a lofty .spire which served as a landmark : 'in the church are 6.25 a.m. & Norwich 9·55 & 4·5 p.m. & are dispatched via Norwich rx.r5 a.m. Dereham 5.30 p.m. & Peter­ several mural monuments, including one to John Holmes, borough 7.25 p.m.; sundays, received at 6.25 a.m.; for more than 30 years master of the Grammar school dispatched via Dereham, at 5.30 p.m .and author of a Greek Grammar; and others to Edmund Wall Letter Box, Railway Station, cleared at 9.50 a.m. & Hobart and to the Newdegate and Briggs families: the 7 p.m. week da,vs only; Cromer road cleared at .communion table, presented in 1883 by Sir Alfred Jodrell u a.m . & 7 p.m. bart. J.P. of Hayfield Hall, in memory of his brother, the late Edward Jodrell esq. is of cedar-wood growrt on the County Magistrates for Holt Petty Se>sional Division, Bayfield estate and olive-wood brought by his late brother Sparke Edward Bowyer esq. M.A., D.L., Guuthorpe hall, from Italy~ the communion plate includes a flagon, pre­ Briningham S.O. chairman · sented by King George the Second when Prince of Wales ; Hastings Lord, Melton Constable 8.0 a paten, given by Sir Robert Walpole and one by Lord Jodrell Sir Alfred hart. D-L. Bayfield hall, Holt R.S.O Charles Townshend: the fine organ wa~ built in :r882, at Cozens-Ihrdy Clement Wm. Hardy esq. Cley ball, Holt a rest, including organ-chamber, of about £soo: the R.S.O church was reseated in 1864, under the direction of Mr. W. Hales-Tooke John esq. The Lawn, Bolt R.S.O Butterfield, architect, and the chancel new roofed in 1887: B.ogcrs, John csq. l\I.A., Holt hall, Holt R.S.O the church affords 350 sittings. The register dates from Leggatt William esq. The Cedarn, Holt R.S.O the year 1558. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent­ Clerk to the Magistrates, Gilbert Buttler Kennett, Market charge £438, gross yearly value £5291 with 57 acres of place glebe and residence, in the 'gift of the Master and fellows of Petty Sessions are held at the Shire Hall every fourth mon­ Ht. John's College, Cambridge, and held since 1853 by the day at II a.m. The following places are included in the Rev. Euward Brumell B.D. formerly fellow and tutor of petty sessional division :-Hale, Hlakeneyl Bodham, that college rural dean of Holt and surrogate. The Wes­ Briningham, Brinton, Briston, Cley-next-the-Sea, Edge­ leyan chapel built in 1838, was restored in 1893 at a cost of 1 field, ~landford-with-Bayiield, Gunthorpc, Hempstead, £150 anr1 will Heat 250 persons: the Primitive Methodist Holt, Hw1worth, Kelling, Langham, Letheringsett, Mel­ chapel, built in 1872, has 220 sittings, :r8o being free, The ton C'..<>nstable with Burgh Parva, Morston, Salthonsr, Free Methodist chapel, erected·in 1862 at a cost of about Saxlingham, Sha.rrington, Stody, Swan ton N overs, £2,000, is of brick and flint in the Gothic style, and a:!'fords Thornage, Weybourne & Wjveton 400'Sittings. The I~iterary Institute has a library of about Public Establishments:- · 41 000 volumes and is well supported. The market for corn is held on W cdnesday and there is a cattle sale e>ery Concert Hall, New street, Arthur Preston, proprietor alternate :Frid~ty during the first portion of the year. The County Court, His Horror John Edmund Wentwnrth bank of Messrs. Barclay & Co: Lim. in High street, is a Addison Q. C. judge ; George Wilkinson, registrar & high structure of brick erected in '1891 by the late firm of bailiff; Henry .Bond, bailiff. Court held alternate months Gurneys, Birkbeck, Barelay and Buxton.· The fairs, chiefly for in the Shire Hall 'at 12 noon. The following places are stock, are held on April 25th and November' 25th and the within its jurisdiction :-Aldborough, Aylmerton, Bacons­ following days; and a statute fair for hiring servants is thorpe, Barninghetm Town, Barningham Norwood, Beck­ held at l\1ichaelmas. llolt Hall, the seat of John Rogers ham (East), Beckbam ('Yest), Bee.ston Hegis, Bes~ingh'lm, NORFOLK. 12* ' •