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Lawson George & Son, saddlers & har­ Matsell John, builder Snclling John Dunn, shopkeeper • ness makers by appointments to Mattock Edwin Albert, grocer & draper Softley Thomas, beer retailer H.R.H. the Prince of Wales & H.R.H. Meek J uhn & Sons, basket makers Tregunna John, beer retailer the Princess of ""ales, machine band, Meek Herbert Albcrt, china & glass dlr Turner Charles, Compasses inn, & ·coal rope & twine makers, oil, tar & Meek John Henry, baker & lime merchant grease merchants Overton William George, watch & Twiudy John, boot maker Lawson George, carr stone merchant & clock· maker, jeweller & optician ; Walker Waiter J. farmer, Octagon ho quarry owner. 8ee advertisement jewellery of every deseription repaired Whitmore Charles, painter & plumber Lemmon George, farmer, Hall farm clcctro plating gilding & engraving Woodbine Charles, boot maker Lewis Henry, butcher & farmer Parsons James, farmer, The Beach Wright Richard, registrar of births & Linford Fredk. painter & paperhanger ParsonsMary(Mrs. ),Plough inn,Sthgate deaths & vaccination officer for No. 2 Linford Susan (Mrs.), baker Pooley William, farmer Snettisham sub-district, & relieving Margetts lly. plumber & paperhanger Potter John Tee, blacksmith officer for Western district, Docking Marriott John & Robert, maltsters & Public Hall (George E. Corbyn,hon.sec) union, Victoria villa · merchants &c. Southgate; & at Lynn Pull William, dealer Wright William, miller (water) Matsell Francis, wheelwright is a parish and village on the river ist chapel. The charities comprise Pearson's, the rental of Stdikey and on the road from Fakcnham to Wells, and about about 7 acres of land, now ( 1892) producing £14 yearly for 1 3~ miles north-by-east from station on the Great bread, and Alvis's of £ <; 15s. per ann. Messrs. Paine and Eastern and Eastern and Midlands railways and 2 south Brettell, of Chertsey, Surrey, who are lords of the manor, from station on the Dereham and Wells section the Rev, James Lee-Warner M.A. rector of BeckleJ", Rye, of the Great Eastern railway, in the Northern division of Sussex, and Henry Lee-Warner esq . .J.P. of Walsingham the county. Nort.h Greenhoe hundred and petty sessional Abbey, and Joseph Stonehewer Scott-Ch11d esq. M.A., J.P. of division, Walsingham union and county court district, rural Hall, are the principal landowners. The soil is . deanery of Walsingham, and archdeaconry and diocese of mixed; subsoil, clay. The land is cultivated on the usual Norwich. The church of St. Mary the Virgin is an ancient four-course system. The area is 1,645 acres: rateable building of flint and stone in the Decorated style, consisting value, £2,633; the population in r891 was 543, inclusive of of chancel, nave, south aisle, south porch and a fine em- the 135 officers and inmates of the Walsingham Union battled western tower containing one bell : the interior House. retains some stone stalls, several monuments, and a mur<~.l Parish Clerk, John Francis. tablet to the Rev. Christopher Stannard B.D. rector from PosT 0FFICE.-l<'rederick Cook, receiver. Letters are re- 1831 : there are 200 sittings. The register dates from the ceived through Fakenham at 8.20 a.m. Box: closed at -year rs6o. , The living is a rectory with that of Thursford 4.20 p.m. The nearest money order & telegraph office is annexed, joint average yearly value from tithe rent- at Walsingham charge, £654, with 16 acres of glebe, and residence at each Walsingham Union House, a structure of brick, was erected place, in the gift of St. John's College, Cambridge, and held. in r837 and will hold 300 inmates; Rev. Edward Haver- since 1851 by the Rev. George Henry Marsh B.D. formerly sham Wball M.A. (curate in charge, Great Snori,ng), fellow of that.college. The Rev. Edward Haversham Whall chaplain; .Frederick William Hart Bayes, medical officer; M. A. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, has been curate in Isaac Priest, ma.