• DIRECTORY. J NORFOLK. CRANWORTH. 95 Wall Letter Boxes, near Costessey Park, collections 9 Catholic School, erected in I87I, for 200 children; aver­ a.m. & 5.25 p.m. week days & 8 p.m. sundays; & near age attendance, 160 ; & suonorted oy Lord Stafford ; Costessey mills, collections I I.25 a.m. & 4.20 p.m. week the Sisters of Charity of St. Paul are the teachers days ; no collection on sun days • P~IVATE RESIDENTS. Banham Jas. well sinker & lime burnr Johnson John James M.R.C.S.Eng•. Davies Very Rev. Monsignor George Barley William, boot maker L.R.C.P.Lond, surgeon, & medical M.A. (Catholic) Barnes John, bricklayer officer & public vaccinator, 1st dis- Finch Charles, Mill house Bilham James, carpenter trict, Forchoe union • Gunton George Burnett George, corn merchant Laws John, Post office Gunton Fred Butler Horace, Black Swan P.H Liohtenberg Georga M.D. Gott.~ Gunton William, Wensum cottage Cannell William, butcher & farmer M.R.C.P.Lond., M.R.C.S.Eng. phy- Fitzgerald Very Rev. Canon Thomas Carr George, farmer sician & surgeon, Riverdale (Catholic) Churchyard & Sons, drapers & grocers Lyons John, Falcon inn overseer & Hampson Rev. John James B.A. Cook Robins, farmer, Lodge farm · clerk to Parish Council (vicar), Vicarage Doggett William, shoe maker Ottaway Ernest, baker & grocer Jerningham Stafford Henry J.P. Cos· Dunnell Charles, bla-cksmith & motor Palm er Albert, builder tessey hall expart Roberts Arthur, blacksmith Johnson John James Gunton Bros. fancy brick makers Savage George Joseph, saddler Lichtenberg George M.D. Riverdale Gunton Charlotte (Mrs.), beer retlr Sidney John, market gardener Oldfield Alfred William, Hillside Gunton Frederick, shopkeeper Thompson & ~ollard, millers (water & Pollard Willia.n John, River view Gunton & Palmer1 builders steam), Costessey mills · Stafford Lord, Oostessey hall Harris Joseph, farmer Thrower William, farmer COMMERCIAL. Harrison Waiter, insurance agent Tufts Henry, farmer, Lodge farm A.ddison Geo.Wm.pig dlr.The Commn Harvey Charles, shoe maker Turner Albert, White Hart P.H A.nderson Robert, Bush P.H Hostler James, chimney sweeper Wells John, painter Archer Jas. forester to Lord Stafford Ireson John, firewood dealer Whayman Harry, grocer COSTON is e. parish on the river Yare, I mile east and held since 1897 by the Rev. F:vank Edward New M.A. from Hardingham station on the Wymondham and Wells of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and chaplain of Wicklewood line of the Graat Eastern railway, and 5 north-west rrom workhouse. The Rectory house was built in ;~:850 at a Wym.ondham, in the Mid division of the county, Forehoe cost of £6oo, on a site where formerly stood the residence hundred, petty sessional division and union, county court of the Catholic archdeacons of Norfolk, and was consider­ district of Wymondham, rural deanery of Hingham, Fore- ably enlarged and restored by the Rev. A. T. Hodgson hoe division, archdeaconry of Norfolk and diocese <Jf B.A. late rector, in 1886, at a cost of £soo. The Earl Norwich. The church of St. Miohael is: an ancient edifice of Kimberley is lord of the manor and principal land­ of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, owner. The soil is various; subsoil, brick·earth. The nave, south porch, and an embattled western tower con- chief crops are wheat, barley, turnips and hay. The area ta.ining one bell: there are remains of the steps leading is 355 acres; rateable value, £3IO; the population in IgGI to the rood loft, a good example of a low-side window, was 42. now bricked up, &nd an ancient piscina: ·the organ was Parish Clerk, Jonathan Neve. erected as a memorial to C. C. Atkins esq. by his chil­ dren, at a cost of £go ; the church was repaired and re­ Pillar Letter Box cleared at 5·45 p.m. Letters through seated in 1850, and has about So sittings. The register Hardingham, Attleborough, arrive at 8.I5 a.m. & lZ.IS dates from th~ year 1694. The living is a rectory, with p.m. Barnham Broom is the nearest money order office the vicarage of Runhall annexed, joint net yearly value & Thuxton the nearest telegraph office, about Ii miles £94t with 6 acres of glebe and residence, in the alternate distant gift of the Bishop of Norwich and the Earl of Kimberley, The children of this place attend the school at Bunhall New Rev.Frank Edwd. M.A.TheRectry!Bridges Susanuah (Mrs.), Coach &/ Brooke R. V. schoolmaster (retired), Wace Richard Waiter, farmer,TheHall Horses P.H · Yareside CRANWICH is a parish in a valley on the south side Colvestone and the vicarage of Didlington, joint net in­ of the river Wissey, 6 miles north from Brandon station come £220, with 19 acres of glebe and residence, in the on the Ely and Norwich section of the Great Eastern rail- gift of Lord Amherst of Hackney, and held since 189I way, and 3 east of Mebhwold, in the South Western divi- by the Rev. Henry Chichele Hart B.A. of Corpus Christi aion of the county, Grimshoe hundred and petty sessional college, Cambridge, and rural dean of Oranwich (South division, Thetford union and county court district, rural division). Henry A. Campbell esq. of Lynford Hall, dAAIIery of Cranwich (South division), archdeaoonry of 1 Brandon, is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The Lynn, and diocese of Norwich. The church of St. Mary Poyntz charity produces £I 2s. yearly. The soil is mostly the Virgin is a small but ancient building of flint, in the sand, with a chalky subsoil. The chief crops are wheat, Early English and later styles, consisting of ohancel, barley and turnips. The area is I,824 acres of land and nave, south porch, and a round embattled western tower 5 of water; rateable value, £675; .the population in 1901 of very early date, containing a clock and one bell: the was 58. nave is Decorated and Perpendicular, and the chancel Parish Clerk, John Aspen. Early English ; communion rails of carved oak and oaken Letters through Mundford Railway Sub-office, arrive at benchea for the school children were presented in 1885 by 8 a.m. Wall Letter Box cleared at 8 a.m. Mundford the Rev. H. Ray B.A. reo'"wr IS?(i-91: there are I20 sit- is the nearest money order & telegraph office, about Il tings, So being free. The register dates from the year miles distant I732· The living i1 a rectory, oonsolidated with that of The children of this place attend Mundford achool Hart Rev. Henry Chichele B.A. (rector & rural dean), Rectory I Cross Edward, Manor farm • CRANWORTH (or Cranworth-cum-Letton) ia a village churchyard are buried Brarnpiion Gurdon esq. l!.P. (W. and parish 4! miles west from Hardingham station on the Norf.), d. 1881, and Henrieiita Suaanna, his wife, daughter Dereham and Wymondham section of the Great Eastern of Lord Oolbome, d. I88o; and al10 the Rev. Philip railway, 7 north-east from Watton, and 6i south from Gurdon, rector (1832-74) 1 the chancel retains a piarina Derebam, in the Mid division of the oounty, Mitford and and sedilia : there il a good oak ecreMl and choir atan. Launditch petty sessional division, Mitford hundred and of oak handaomely carnd 1 the church was re1tored in union, East Derebarn county court district, rural deanery I852, and in 1899 the porch wu rebuilt, in memory of of Hingham, Mitford di'rision, archdeaconry of Norfolk the Be..-. T. P. Gamier M •.A.. hon. canon of Norwittb b. and diocese of Norwieh& The church of St. Mary the for 2I years rector of the pariah, and affords 250 aitWip. Virgin, erected about the middle of the I3th eentury, il The regiater daiiea from the year 1653. The liTing Y a a small building of linii and stone in the Early English rectory, with the reetoriel of Letton and Southburgh atyle, consisting of chancel, nave, aillu, north poreh and annexed, joint net yearly value £450, including 38 aarea an embattled westem tower, with lpire, containing 3 of glebe with reaidenca, ill ihe gift of Lord Cranwonh. and ltell•: in the church are aeveral handaome monument• ~ held aioee I8g6 by the Re..-. .Arthur Tayler Bodgaon B.A. nrious members of the Gurdon family, of Letton Ball, of Queens' College, Cambridge. Here iB a Primitive including Brampton Gurdon esq. M.P. for Sudbury, who Methodist chapel. On the eburch gteea aiill ltand tl» commanded the Suffolk Horae at Naseby, June I-f, 1645• village "atoeb," and in ROOd preaenatioD.. The poor and died in t66g, and to Mary (Polated), hil wife, d. have £12 yearly for fuel, deri..-ed from land. Dr. Cbril- 1'679; and Thomhagh Gurdon, receiver-general of the topher Sutton, the celebrated author of " Diace Vi•ere,• county of Norfolk, d. I733· and Elizabeth (Cooke), hi• and "Disce Mori," and aome time incumbent of Wood­ wife, d. 1745: there is also a fine monument to Sir William rising, was reetor here in IHJ· ltoltct llonaer Bolf' Oooke J>art. M.P. (Norf.), d. at Letton in I7o8: in the son of the Rev. Edmund Bolfe, some time oarate of Cran-.