44 BEECHAMWELL. . [KELLY'S Rix, sub-postmaster. Letters receivel through National School (mixed), built in 1835, & enlarged i'n 1875, arrive at 8 a. m.; dispatched at 5.15 p. m. & on sundays at at a cost of £231, for 79 children; average attendance, 75 ; xo a. m. Swaffham is the nearest telegraph office Mrs. Ellen Alliban, mistress Fielden Mrs. Beechamwell hall Barkham William, baker Mason George J.land agent Mason Claxton B Crane William, Coopers' Arms P.H. & Rix Henry, shopkeeper, Post office Nightingale Rev. RobertCubitt,Rectory blacksmith Storey Philip, John & Stephen, farmersP Storey Philip Mason Claxton B. farmer, St. John's fm Malthousc farm; & at Shingham :BEESTON (or Beeston-next-Mileham) is a large and preaching a Good Friday sermon ; Halcott's charity of £2 8s. pleasant village standing on high ground, 2 miles north for bread, to be distributed every sunday ; Alee's charity of from the Fransham station on the Lynn branch of the Great £r 12s. given away in bread; Gooch's charity (1634), rang­ Eastern railway and 7 west from , in the Mid divi- ing from £2 16s. to £4 8s. and given to the poor in money; sion of the county, Launditch hundred, Mitford and Laun- a fuel allotment of 20 acres, rented at £27, and the Clay ditch petty sessional division and union, Dereham county Pit allotment let at £r 6s. which sum is distributed in court district, rural district of South Brisly, archdeaconryof coals. Henry Edward Paine esq. is lord of the manor. Lynn and diocese of ; it is purely agricultural, William Thomas Collison esq. of Bilney Hall and Yarmouth, with the houses very much scattered. For civil purposes it Robert Harvey Mason esq. of l'iecton Hall, Miss Hoste, the is united with Bittering Parva, which is ecclesiastically a trustees of the late C. Wallis esq. and Mrs. Stedman of separate parish, the civil parish being known as Beeston with Gressenhall, are the principal landowners. The soil is light Little Bittering. The church of St. Mary is a building of loam and clay; subsoil, gravel and clay. The chief crops are flint with stone dressings, in the Early Decorated style, con- wheat, barley and turnips. The area is 2,502 acres ; rate­ sisting of chancel with chapel, clerestoried nave of four bays, able value, £2,455; the population in x8gr was 469. aisles, north porch, and an embattled western tower with Parish Clerk, James Head. spire, containing one bell: the tower was struck by light- PosT Office.-Mrs. Eliza Preston, sub-postmistress. Letters ning and burnt down in May, 1872, and rebuilt in 1873 : in arrive through Swaffham at 8 a. m. & 5.25 p.m. ; dis- the church is a finely carved screen: there are 2oo sittings. patched at 9_30 a.m. & 5_30 p.m. Postal orders are issued The register dates from the year 1538. The living is a here but not paid. Wall Letter Box, cleared at 9_40 a. m., ractory, commuted1tithe rent-charge £s5o, average £.p8, net _ p.m. & 8_40 a. m. sundays. Litcham is the nearest yearly value £318 including 30 acres of glebe with residence, 5money45 order & telegraph office in the gift of and held since 1895 by the Rev. Thomas Willis :Butler Eartlett of St. Bee's, who is also vicar of Kempston. A School Board of five members was formed July 14, I875• The rectory house, formerly surrounded by a moat, which for Beeston All Saints & Little Bittering; W. L. Regester has been filled in on one side, was burnt down in the reign of Great Dunham, clerk to the board ; William Fortin of James I. and rebuilt on the same site. Here is a Primi- Randall of Litcham, attendance officer tive Methodist chapel. The charities include the church :Board School (mixed), built in 1879 at a cost of £8so, for land of 8 acres 15 perches, let for £9; the rector's dole of£ 1 ; g6 children; average attendance, 8o; Albert Victor Jordan, Huke's charity, £5 for the poor and to the rector £,r for master

:Bartlett Rev. Thomas Willis Butler, 1 Claxton Robert, farmer Parke J.<'rederick, farmer Rectory Claxton William, farmer Rivett Henry, farmer & cattle dealer Dowling Edward Cooper Hy. wheelwright & blacksmith Sculphcr Gcorge Dcnnis, farmer, Con- Preston James Culley John, farmer way farm (letters address Mileham) COMMERCIAL. Cullyer William, farmer Starling James, farmer (postal address Bell Mary Ann (Miss), farmer Gun ton Robert, Arms P.H Litcham) , :Bolton Edward, farmer, New farm Hart George, farmer Stibbon Thomas, farmer Bolton William Jennings (exors. of), Holman Robert Palmer, farmer Stimpson Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper farmers, Manor farm (postal address, . Mitchell William Saunders, farmer Watts Henry, grocer & draper Litcham) Moore Jame.'! John, carpenter Wheales John, Bell P.H Euscall Charles & Henry, farmers 1 NaylerJames, farmer, Bell hall Wilson James, farmer Claxton Henry, cattle dealer & castratr · Orton John, farmer WyettHenry, Ploughshare P.H : is a parish on the seashore, one mile poor have £22 from Hooke's and other charities for fuel. In south-east from station on the Midland and a picturesque dale in this parish are the remains of Beeston Great Northern joint railway, about 3 miles west-north- l'riory, founded in the reign of King John by Lady Isabella west from 1 station on the Great Eastern railway, Cressey for canons of the Augustinian order, and dedicated to and 12 north from , in the Northern division St. Mary in the Mead: the west end of the church, with a of the county, North hundred and petty sessional small tower and part of the chapter house, are the only division, Erpingham union, Holt county court district, rural portions now remaining: the church when perfect was deanery of Repps, arch deaconry and diocese of N orwicb. cruciform and 141 feet in length, but had no aisles. EeP.ston The church of All Saints is a building of flint with stone Hall is the seat of Wyndham Cremer Cremer csq. J.P. lord dressings, chiefly in the Decorated style, and consists of of the manor of Owby and Thirne. The trustees of the late chancel, nave, aisles, north and south porches (the north Benjamin Bond Bond-Cabbell :esq. (died 1892) are lords of porch forming a vestry) and a western tower containing one the manor of Eeeston. W. Cremer Cremer esq. and Samuel bell: the church has a fine roof, and there are some remains lloare esq. M.P. 1of Cromer, are the principal landowners. of a painted screen behind the communion table: the church The soil is principally sand and heath. The crops are the was thoroughly restored in 1867, and a new pulpit, reading usual cereals. The area is 830 acres of land and 79 of desk and font presented by the late Thomas Wyndham foreshore; rateable value, £1,371; the population in x89:r. Cremer esq. of Beeston Hall (d. 1894), to whom the stained was 183. east window has been erected as a memorial the church Parish Clerk, Frank Mortimer. was also re-seated in r867, by Gurney Hoare esq. and in 1892 Letters through Cromer arrive at 8.30 a. m. ; through the chancel was reseated with oaken benches. The register Sheringham 12_30 p.m.; dispatched at 4 p.m. Lower dates from the year I743· The living is a rectory, tithe rent- Sheringham is the nearest money order & telegraph office charge £136, average £ro3, gross income £r23, including I6 acres of glebe with residence, in the gift of the Duchy of School (infants) for the parishes of Beeston & Sheringham, Lancaster, and held since 1893 by the Rev Henry ColsoL built in 1875, for go children; enlarged 1894 for x6o; Fitch M.A. of Pembroke College, Cambridge. The rectory average attendance, 125; Miss Emily Kent, mistress house was erected in x86g on a site near the church. The The elder children attend the school at Sheringham Cremer Mrs. Bees ton hall Crask George, apartments Martin Jacob, apartments Cremer Wyndbam CremerJ.P. Beeston Farrow Hannah (Mrs.), apartments, Palmer Herbert, apartments, Utria vil hall Suffield house Sayer Charles, farmer & brickmaker, Eden Henry HamiltonForbes, Eden ldg Field Samuel, farmer West William Edward, apartments. Fitch Rev. Henry Colson M. A. Rectory 'Fuller Samuel, farmer, Abbey farm Olive house Mansfield Hon. John Q. C Funnell Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper West William Henry,apartments,Wood- Baalham Phoobe Ann (Mrs.), apart- Gilmour Thomas Lennox, apartments, bine house ments, .foydene Dorma cottage Woodhouse Charles, apartments BouttellChas.paintcr&aptmts.Rockdcne Little William, apartments BEESTON ST. ANDREW is a village and parish, and arehdeaconry and . There 2i miles west from station on the Norwich and is no church; a thorn bush is planted where the foundations Cromer section of the Great Eastern railway and 3~ north- remain, and service used to be held on the spot once in the east from Norwich, in the Eastern division of the county, year. The living is a sinecure rectory, average tithe-rent Taverham hundred ami petty sessional division, St. Faith's charge £r4o, net yearly value £9o, with r acre of glebe, in union and Norwich county court district, rural deanery of the gift of the trustees of the late John Gurney esq. and