Suffolk. Herring Fleet

DIRECTORY. J SUFFOLK. HERRING FLEET. 181 crops are wheat, barley, peas, beans and roots. The &; nearest monev• order office for Hulver Wrentham, area is 1,953 acres of land and 6 of water; rateable 3 miles distant, for Henstead. North Cove, 2 miles value, £r,86z; the population in zgn was 524. distant, is the nearest telegraph office for Hulver &i Wrentham, 3 miles distant, for Henstead HULVER is a hamlet, z£ miles north-west from the Wall Letter Box at Henstead cle6red at 8.30 a.m. &; church. Here is a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1840. 6.45 p.m. week days only Parish Clerk, Frederick Spall. County Police Station, Hulver, William Baker, constable Post Office, Hulver.-Arthur William King, sub-post- Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1844, en- master. Letters arrive from Wangford, Suffolk, at larged in 1873• &; ful"ther enlarged in z8g5, for 125 7·45 a.m. &i I p.m.; dispatched at 8.15 a.m. &i 6.10 children; average attendance, us; Richard William p.m. week days only. Beccles, 4 miles distant, is the Cobb, master HENSTE.!D. Long .Agnes (Mrs.), market gardene1· HULVER. Barker Rev. Canon Rowlane Vecti~ Lydamore Thomas, farmer M.A. (rector) Moore William,farmer, Wood Row .fm Brown Alfred, boot maker Crane Albert, Hulver Gate P.H Palgrave Sir Robt. Harry Inglis J.P., Muttitt Robert, market gardener Delf James, farmer F.R.S. Henstead hall Peek Robert, farmer Frost Prudence (Mrs.), market grdnr Whitaker Rev.Geo.Ayton M.A.Rectory Prime John Howard, blacksmith Raven Clement, farmer, Moat farm Haddingham Charles, market gardnr COMMERCIAL. Raven Edward, farmer, White house King- Arthur William, grocer Brewster Fredk. farmer, Bellgrove fm Spall Frederick, farmer Simms Neil, horse slaughterer Briggs John, farmer Thrower W alter, gamel\eeper to Sir Strange James, farmer, Firs farm Cole Jn. Gibborn (exors. of), farmers, R. H. I. Palgrave Hall farm Wright Geo. jun. farmer,Grange frm HEPWORTR is a parish and scattered village 8l miles and some cottages, the net proceeds of which amount ta north-west from Finninghs.m station on the Ipswich and about £so yearly, which sum is now (1912) under the· Norwich section of the Great Eastern railway, and nl direction of the Charity Commissioners divided in north-east from Bury St. Edmunds, in the North Western moieties between the church and fuel for the poo:r. division of the county, Blackbow·n hundred and petty TheTe is also a fuel allotment of 14 acres, the proceeds sessional division, Thetford union and county court dis of which are also expended in coal for the poor. Rep trict, Blackburne rural deanery, archdeaconry of Sud worth House, a substantial mansion of red brick, is the· bury and diocese of Ely. The church of St. 'Peter, seat of Thomas Tindal Methold esq. B.A., J.P. who is standing on high ground, an ancient structure of rubble the principal landowner. The soil is generally heavy; stone, chiefly in the Early English style, with tiled subsoil, clay, some portions mixed. The crops are on roof, was burned down on Easter Monday, 18g8, but has the four-course system. The area is 1,693 acres ; rate been rebuilt so far as possible in the style of the former able value, {.1,725; the population in zgu was 416. church, and consists of chancel, nave, south porch and a Sexton, Harry Sparkes. western tower containing a clock and 5 bells : the new nave has a double hammer-beam roof of English oak, Post Offi.ce.-Mrs. A. Boggis, sub-postmistress. Letters and the chancel is paved with black and white marble: through Diss arrive at 6.30 a.m. &; are dispatched at the font cover, which is of oak, carved with niches for 6.45 p.m. ; sundays, same times. The nearest moner figures, was restored in 1872. The restoration of the order &; telegraph office is at Stanton, 2 miles distant cliurch was completed in September, x8gg, at a cost of Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1852 &' about £2,300. The register dates from the year 1688. enlarged in r8g6, with residence for the mistress, for The living is a discharged rectory, net yearly value Bg children; average attendance, 64; £360, including 40 acres of glebe, with residence, in the mistress gift of King's College, Cambridge, and held since 1910 by the Rev. Charles Everitt Green B.A. of Christ's Carrier.-George Fisk, to Bury St. Edmunds, wed.; College, Cambridge. There is a Primitive Methodist other carriers pass through the lower end of the vil~ chapel. The charities consist of about 44 acres of land lage wed. &; sat Green Rev. Charles Everitt B.A. (rec- Day Jsph. Jn. Duke of Marlboro' P.H Knights William, farmer,Church frm tor), Rectory Dorling William, farmer Offord Frank, boot dealer, draper,. Hj)ls George, Chestnut house 1 Durrant William, farmer grocer &; pork butcher Methold Thomas Tindal B.A., J.P. Feetham Henry, farmer Rolfe Fredk. farmer, North Hall farm Hepworth house Fisk George, farmer &; carrier Seaman George, farmer COMMERCIAL. Francis Henry, farmer Seaman Harriett (Mrs.), draper Alexander Reuben, blacksmith Groom John, farmer Smith John, farm bailiff to T. T. Beart Harry Charles, farmer Hart Jesse, beer retailer Methold esq. J.P Brown Robert, farm bailiff to C. J. Hatten l\lary (Mrs.), farmer Steggles Thos. Henry, farmer,Poplars M. Jiggens esq Hatten Robert S. farmer, Green farm Stewart Thomas, farmer Clarke Albert, farmer Hills Geo.rge, jun. cabinet maker Ward Herbert, farmer Clarke William, farmer I Hinnells Hannah (Mrs.), shopl;:eeper Warren James, farmer Cockle Alfred, beer retailer Holden J ames, farmer Webb Wm. &i Son,china, glass &ic.dlrs Collins James, thatcher 1Holden Samuel, farmer Well er Chas. boot ma. &; asst. oversr HERRINGFLEET is a small parish with the houses of the conventual church nave and south aisle have very much detached, I mile north from Somerleyton sta been located; also those of the cloisters and other build tion, 7 mile1 south-west-by-south from Yarmouth and 6 ings : the undercroft of the refectory is well preserved : north-west from Lowe-stoft, in the Northern division of the farmery, bakehouse and brewhouse now form part the CO'Ilnty, Mutford and Lothingland inoorporation, petty of an adjoining farm: a fine specimen of a Roman sessional division and hundred and Lowestoft county nether millstone, supporting one of the columns of the court district, rural deanery of Lothingland, archdeaconry undercroft, was discovered in rgo8: part of the walls of of Suffolk and diocese of Norwich; t.he navigable Waveney Henry J ernegan's manor house are still in existence. separates this parish from Norfolk: the East Suffolk sec Col. Leathes receives a yearly payment from the rector tion of the Great Eastern railway has a station here, called of the adjoining parish of Burgh, in acknowledgment St. Olave's. The church of St. Margaret is a structure of of his rights as prior of St. Olave's. The Herringfleet flint with stone facings, in the Norman style, consisting hills in this parish command a fine view of the Waveney of chancel, nave, south porch and round western Saxon valley. Herringfleet Hall is the property and residence tower containing 2 bells: there is some g-ood stained of Col. Hill Mussenden Leathes J.P. who owns nearly glass: the church affords 104 sittings. The register all of the parish; the mansion, which stands in a well dates from the year 1706. The living is a vicarage, net wooded park, contains a choice selection of pictures by yearly value £130, in the gift of Col. Hill Mussende'Il the old masters, the gems of the collection being six Leathes, and held since 1912 by the Rev. Harry Stanley highly-finished cabinet pictures by Herman Van der Mercer M.A. of Pembroke College, Cambridtre. The Myn, bought in the early part of the reign of George I. Augustinian priory of St. Olaves and St. Mary was for £zo,ooo. The Old Manor House is occupied as a founded in the reign of Henry 3rd (1236 or earlier) by farm house. The soil is mixed; subsoil, clay and sand. Roger Fitz-Osbert. At its dissolution there were six The chief crops are wheat, barley, rye, roots and some canons and revenues valued at £49 I zs. 7d. : in 1784 land in pasture. The area is 1,282 acres of land, 23 of some of the principal remains were removed: in 1904 water, 15 of tidal water and 40 of foreshore; rateable and subsequently the ruins have been excavated and value, £2,351; the population in 19II was 282. restored by the present occupant of the site: the walls Parish Clerk, James Walker. .

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