DIHECTORY.] NORFOLK. STOKE HOLY CROSS. 467 vicarage, net yearly value £r85, including II acres of Wall Letter Boxes.-Wereham road, cleared at {).2o glebe, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held since p.m. ; sunday g.2o a.m. ; Railway t~ta.tion. ~-4i a.m. .19Io by the Rev. Edward Thomas Woollard. A new & 7 p.m. week days only; East Moor, 4 p.m. week vir;a.rage house was presented in 1903. The small tithes days only are commuted to· the Crown at £192 IBs. yearly and the great tithes to the Norwich Union Fire Insurance STOKE FERRY SUB-COMMITTEE (No. 6) OF NOR­ C:ompany at [247. There are Wesleyan and United FOLK LOCAL PENSIO~ COMMITTEE. ~etbodist chapels. ..!. cemetery of one acre was formed The following places are included in the Sub-District :­ in Feb. 1904, and is under the control of the Parish Barton Bendish, Bexwell, Boughton, Buckenham Toftl!, Council. The Bradfield trust, £1,2oo, realising [30 Colveston, Cranwicb, Crimplesham, Denver, Dereham annually, is a charity administered by the vicar, church­ (West), Didlington, Downham Market, Feltwell, Felt­ wardens and others for the benefit of Bradfield's Church well .Anchor, Fincham, Fordham, Fouldhen, Ickburgh, of England school. A pleasure fair is held on Decem­ Lynford, Methwold, Mundford, Northwold, Roxbam, ber 6th, and one for hiring servants on the Thursday Ryston, Southery, Stoke Ferry, Stradsett, Tofts (West), br.fore Old Micbaelmas ; considerable business is also Weeting, Wereham & Wretton done in corn, coal, lime and malt. Messrs. Paine and Meetings are held at the Village hall, Stoke Ferry & Brettell, solicitors, of Chertsey, Surrey, are lords of the Council schools, Downham Market, once a month. manor. .Augustus Edward Roger Micklefield esq. M . .A. Chairman, Stephen Oldman, Fern ho. Earl's st. Thetford and John C. Howard esq. of Spalding, are the prin­ Vice-Chairman, J. B. Mitchell, Oxborough, Stoke Ferry cipal landowners. The area is 2,276 acres of land and Clerk, F. J. Glasscock, High street, Downham Market 22 of water; rateable value, [3,672 ; the population in 19II was 652 in the civil, and 580 in the ecclesiastical Public Elementary Free School, erected & endowed in parish in Igox. By an Order, which came into operation IB I9 by the late James Bradfield esq. for the education March 25th, 1884, detached parts of Wereham and of 25 poor boys from the parishes of Stoke Ferry & Wretton were amalgamated with this parish. Wretton, for 89 boys & girls & 48 infants; average Sexton, John Briston. attendance, 130 boys, £"irls & infants; Henry William Clarke, master; Mrs. Clarke, mistress Post, M. 0. & T. Office (letters should have Norfolk Railway Station, Richard English, collector added). John Mee, sub-postmaster. Letters received Carriers to Lynn.-G. Salmon & G. W. Johnson, tues. at 5.20 a.m. & 12.50 p.m.; dispatched at II a.m. & thurs. & sat. returning same days, & Feltwell & 6.50 p.m.; & on sundays 6.50 p.m Methwold, man. wed. & fri • PRIVATE RESIDENTS . Carter George, coal dealer :\Iellor Wilfrid Arnold, solicitor; at- Buckenham William Alfred Case Brothers, farmers tends wed. II a.m. to 5 p.m. ; & Churchill Mrs. The Limes Cater Elizh. (Mrs.), grocer & baker at Down ham Eggett Benjamin Chadwick Joseph, harness maker Mitcbell John Banbam, traction Eggett Edward Ghent Churchill Willougbby Dixie, bay & engine & agricultural machine Etheridge Robert Bradfield straw merchant, The Limes owner Farrer Miss Cook John Edward, farmer National Poultry Organisation Society Ferraby Mrs Darkins James, coal dealer (Herman .l<'reund, local manager) Fincham Albert William Darkins Robert A. beer retailer ~ix John, farmer, Boughton road Green Williarn Gates, Homeleigh Eggett Benjamin, builder, contractor Pace Richard, fried fish -shop Hinde Ernest Lionel, Bridge road & undertaker Palmer Thomas, Grown hotel J ohnson Miss, Stoke Ferry hall Eg-g-ett Edward Ghent (late B. Pollard Martha Kezia (Mrs.), grocer Micklefield Aug. Edwd. Roger M.A Eggett), builder, contractor & Powell Charles, carpenter ~itchell John Banham, Bridge road undertaker Riches Frederick William, shopkeeper Musson Rev. William (Wesleyan English Wm. cycle agent & dealer Riches Sydney, builder Methodist), Wesley Manse Etheridge E. & B. seed, wool, wine & Rickard Arthur, farmer Smith Miss L. 2 Bridge road spi:rit merchant~; & at King street, Rolfe Hannah (Mrs.), shopkeeper Steele Henry Frederic M.D Lynn Salmon George, carrier & farmer Woollard Rev. Edward Thomas Fincham Albt. Wm. grocer & draper Sharp Ted, baker (vicar), Vicarage Firth Reuben, mineral water agent Smith William Joseph, accounta:ct & Fretwell Waiter, farmer, Manor farm assistant overseer, clerk to the COMMERCIAL. Galliford Sydney Artbur, excise officr Parish Council & burial authority &! Earlv closing day, Tuesday. Goodchild Albert John, draper deputy registrar of births & deaths Ashby & Tuck, butchers Green William Gates, cattle dealer for Fincham sub-district, Downham Barclay & Company Ltd. bankers Harold Harry William, photographer, union (sub-branch to Downham Market) Bridge road Steele Henry Frederic M.D.Durh., (Waiter John Hayden, manager); Harvey Elenor (Miss), shopkeeper L.R.C.P.Lond., M.R.C.S.Eng., open mou. & fri. I to 4; draw on Hinde Ernest Lionel M.P.S. chemist, L.S.A. surgeon, & medical officer & head office, 54 Lombard st. London cycle agent & dealer, motor public vaccinator Stoke Ferry dis­ EC engineer, news agent, stationer, trict, Downham union, & Oxbro' dis­ Bayfield George Smith, butcher tobacconist, seedsman, wine mer- trict, Swaffham union, & registrar Beattie Robt. farmer, Stoke Fen farm chant & hair dresser of births & deaths for Fincham Bonnett Thomas, farrier & general J ohnson George Whybre, carrier sub-district, Downham union smith Johnson Robert Whybre, tailor Territorial Force Battalion (5th) Nor- Brock Emma M. (Miss), butcher Keeling William, boot repairer folk Regiment (detachment of B Buckenham W. A. & Co. corn, Kemp Robert, market gardener,· Co.; Sergt.-Major William Ford, cake, seed, coal & coke, salt & Bridge road instructor) manure merchants & millers & Kerridge lsaac, boot repairer Tuck Charles Hewitt, butcher, see game food manufacturers; & at Leggett Walter W. Bull inn Ashby & Tuck Brand on Lock Mary Ann (Mrs.), beer retailer Villag-e Hall (Wm. Jsph. Smith, mgr) Carter Cornelius George, Duke's Lowe Harry, saddler White Alfred, farmer Head P.H Lusher George, beer retailer STOKE HOLY CROSS is a parish and village, 2 3 acres of glebe, with residence, erected in 1838, in the miles east from Swainsthorpe station on the Ipswich and gift of the Dean and Chapter of Norwich~ and held since Norwich section of the Great Eastern railway and 5 1898 by the Rev. Edward Robert Burroughes M.A. of south from Norwich, in the Southern division of the Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Here is a Reading room built county, Swainsthorpe petty sessional division, Henstead in 1qo6. Major-Gen. Sir Robert Harvey in 1844 ~eft hundred and union, Norwich county court district, rural £wo, the inte:rest to b~ given away yearly to poor dPanery of Brooke (western division), archdeaconry a.nd widows of army pensioners in this parish. The fuel diocese of Norwich, situated on the Taas. The church allotment consists of 13 acres I t-ood, now let for £14 of the Holy Cross is a building of flint in the Perpen­ a year. Stoke Hall, the residence of Geoffrey Birk­ dicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, beck esq. is a spacious mansion of brick in the Eliza­ vestry, organ chamber, and an embattled western tower bethan style, built in 1852, and standing on an eminence containing 3 bells, dated 1639 : the east window is a in a. well-wooded park of 300 acres. Robert Fellowes memorial to Mrs. Crozier- Bailey, :r8J3, and there are esq. of Shotesham Park, who is lord of the manor, several others, including one .to. the !Jite H. Birkbeck and Martin and Geoffrey Birkbeck esqrs. are the chief esq. chief landownelf a.nd lay ree.tor of the -parish-: landowners. The soil is light and sandy; subsoil, the church wa~ thoroughly restored. in -:~a6J, and has various. The chief cr.ops are wheat, oats, barley and 2oo sittings. '{he regiliter, dll.ltes from rtha. year 1538. turnipi. The area is I,66o acres; J"ateable value, The living is- .a vict~Jage, Bet· yearly yal~ {,147• including £2,225; the population in I9U was 424- NORFOLK 30• .