DIRECTORY.] NORFOLK. EAST SO MER TON. 601 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 GREAT SNORING 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 Fakenham 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 Walsingham 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 Thursford 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.<Jter; Mrs. Mary Priest, matron; Miss charge since r89r, and resides at the rectory. 'fhe rectory Kate Rohson, industrial trainer & assistant matron; the house, a fine specimen of ornamental brickwork, was built boys attend the school at Great Snoring & the girls that. by Sir Ralph Shelton kt. and considerably enlarged. and at Thursford beautified by the present rector in 1853 and its elaborate Church of England School (mixed), erected in 1859, for 100 south front in part restored. There is a Primitive Method- children; average attendance, 75; Harry Green, master Whall Rev. Edward H<tversham !LA. Bushell William & Son, machine makrs Massingham Edward, farmer [curate in charge], The Rectory Cook Frederick, shopkeeper & wheel- Perowne .Benjamin Cubitt, farmer & COMMERCIAL. wright, Post office brick maker (brick works at l3arney) Adams Matilda (Mrs.), shopkeeper & Cook William, wheelwright Ramm John, blacksmith miller ( wmd) Docking Clement, baker & miller (wind) South gate Eliza (Mrs.), Tuns P.B. & Bushell J. & Sons, engineers & machin~ Gamble Henry, farmer · cooch builder makers Green Harry, assistant overseer & Southgate George, miller (wind) Bushell.Joseph,school attendance officer schoolmaster Southgate \\'alter, farmer ~ for Fakenham district, Walsingham Hall Robt.Charles,farmr. WinePark frm Tuck Wm. Unicorn P.H.& horse breakr union,& thrashing machine proprietor Howlett James, shopkeeper LITTLE SNORING is a parish on the road from 1 Hastings, and held since 1882 by the Rev. William Martin Fakenham to Wells, about 3 miles north-cast from Faken- • n.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, and rural dean of Wal­ ham station on the Great Eastern and Eastern and :Midlands singham, who is also vicar of West Barsham, and resides at railways, in the North Western di1'iswn of the county, Gal- East Barsham. Here is a Primitive Methodist cbapel. The low hundred and petty sessional division, Walsingham union poor have the rent of 8A. 3R. SP. of land, now (1892) let in · and county court district, rural deanery of Burnham, arch- half-acre allotments at£2 per acre, ar,d also 17 acres on which deaconry and diocese of .Norwich. The church of St. Andrew to cut for fuel. Lord Hastings, who is lord of the manor, is an edifice in the Transition Norman and later styles, con»ist- Joseph Stone hewer Scott Chad esq. M.A., J.P. of Thursford ing of chancel, nave, south porch and a detached round tower Hall, and Messrs. H. B. Beane and Son, are the chief land­ the west end containing one bell : the porch is of very at owners. The soil is various ; subsoil, clay. The land is curious Transition Norman· character, with a stilted horse- cultivated on the usual four-course system. The area js shoe arch, within which is a pointed arch ornamented _1,528 acres; rateable value, £r,8os; the population in 1891 with zigzag work and under this again a round-headed door- was 26o. way, with nook shafts and sculptured capitals : the font is Parish Clerk, James Harvey. Late Norman, and auorned with carved foliage: there are 'LETTER Box cleared at 4.30 p.m. Letters received througb 200 sittings. The register dates from the year 1559. The Fakenham, which is the nearest money order & telegraph living is a rectory, annexed to the vicarage of East Bar- office, arrive-at 8 a. m sham, average tithe rent-charge £so6, joint gross yearly National School (mixed), built in 1865, for 100 children; value £630, including 66 acres of glebe, in the gift of Lord average attendance, 65; Arthll!" Wm. Baldwin, mast.er Guilliam Rev. Samuel Thorn F.R.G.S. Beane Henry Barnard & Son, farmers, Harvey James, ncii r. Ji'" [curate in charge], The Rectory Manor house Jarvis Mark, flour dealel"' COMMERCIAL. Green George, baker &; shopkeeper Parker Thomas, shoe maket Armes Tbomas1 farm bailiff to the Gidney Charles. gamekeeper to E. B. Rayner William, Green Man P. H I exors. -of Mrs. S. Savory Sparke esq 1 Sberringbam Edward, farmer Ban yard W1lliam, coal dealer Hall James, farmer~ Jex:~s farm 1 SymondsThos. blacksmith&wbeelwright EAST SO MER TON LS a parish near the coas•, 2 miles walls, now covered with ivy, are still standing, and tbere )s north from Hemsby station and 2 miles east-south-east from a large tree growing in the midst; the inhabitants attend Martham station, both on the Eastern and Midlands rail Winterton church. The register dates from ~he year 1717. way, about 8~ miles north-by-west from Yarmouth, in the The li\·ing is a chapelry, annexed t.o the -rect.ory .of Winter­ Eastern division of the county, incorporated hundreds, petty ton, aver.~ge tithe rent-charge £41z, joint gross yearly value sessi.onal division and incorporation of East and West Flegg, j £445. incltJding 30 acres gf glebe, with re<~idence, in the trustees~ county court district of Yarmouth, rural deanery of Flegg 1 gift of and held since x8go by the Rev. Will\alll and a:t:ehdeaconry an.d diocese of Norwich. The church of 1Arthur Gr~ B.A. of Ox:furd University. who resides 11t St, ~ary pa.s ,b~en for many :years in ruins, the towe~ and, Wjn;erto~~,. Durnley Hall, now occupied pySamn~ ~ightip- C. N. & S. 39. .