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DIRECTORY.] NOHFOLK. BA.LBOUSE. 485 SAHAM TONEY is a parish and village 2 miles north- and United Methodist chapels. Saham College was west from Watton station on the Bury, Tbetford and founded in 1852 by the late Rev. W. H. Parker M.A. of Swaffham section of the Great Eastern railway, 9 south- New College, Oxford, then rector of Saham Toney. west from Dereha.m and 8 south-east from Swaftham, in There are seven almshouses, four for widows and three the South Western division of the county, Wayland bun- for old and respectable married couples: Hunt's charity dred and petty sessional division, Swaffham union and of £22 yearly is given in calico and flannel to poor county court district, rural deanery of Breccles, arch- p:ui,;hioners; the fuel allotment of 86 acres is let for deaconry of Norfolk and diocese of Norwich. The Wissey about £ul yearly, which sum is distributed in coals. brook flows along the south of the parish, and forms part Near the .centre of the village is a mere of 13 acres, of the boundary on that side. The church of St. George the property of R. H. Buscall esq. J.P. well stocked is a handsome edifice uf flint in the Perpendicular style, with fish: eels of a peculiar form are caught here consisting of chancel, nave of five bays with clerestory, and black bass are bred in the mere. Roman pottery aisles, vestry, south porch and an embattled western and other antiquities have at various times been tower, with pinnacles, containing a clock and 6 bells: found in the parish. Henry Edwin Garrod esq. Mount over the south porch is a parvise : · a fine oak screen, gilt, street, Diss, is lord of the manor of Sa ham Toney, separates the nave and chancel: in the north and south and the rector uf the rectorial manor, and the Rev. walls of the chancel and south wall of the nave are piscinre: William Shuckforth Grigson M. A. vicar of Pelynt, the font is of Bath stone and has a carved oak cover, Cornwall, of the manors of Howards, Harveys and Pages. dated 1632, and surmounted by a pelican in her piety; The chief landowners are Capt. Charles Jarnes Randolph the church is for the most part seated with oak benches J.P. the trustees of the Misses Mann, J. H. Gurney of the 16th century, some of which have carved puppy esq. of Keswick Hall, and Joseph Truernan Mills esq. of heads and figures of lions: there are others of later dat!J Stockgrove, Leighton Buzzard. The soil is chalk and also carved: the oak reredos was erected to the memorY clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley • of the Rev. J. G. K. Mackenzie M.A. rector 18gg-rg1o: and turnips. The area is 4,039 acres of land and 24 of the stained east window wa.s the gift of the Rev. W. H. water; rateable value, [5,025; the population in rgu, Parker M.A. rector from 1833, who restored the whole vras 1,031. building at a considerable expense in 1864: there are Post Office.-Ernest Wheals, sub-postmaster. Letten brasses to Edward Gaffe, of Threxton, 1612, Anna Sand- received through Thetford at 6.35 a.m.; dispatched at hill, 1576, Edward Harvey Grigson, 1842, Williarn 1 r.3o a.m. & 6.50 p.m. week days & 10.15 a.m. sun- Hooper Parker, 1876, Mary Parker (his mother), 1835, days; no sunday delivery. Watton, 1~ miles distant, and E~ward Ro}Jert George, IQIO: there are ~ural is the nearest money order & telegraph office · memonal tablet~ to Carolus Parrott, 1787, R1chard 1 Po~t Office, Saham Hills.-Richard Jary, sub-postmaster. Bohun Tomkyns, 1833, former rectors, and to T. Shuck- Letters arrive through Thetford at 7.30 a.m. ; dis- fort~ and- his wife, and several memori~l windows, in- patched 6.30 p.m.; no collection sundays. Watton is _ cludmg one to the_ l~te John Cas~end1eck esq. : the the nearest money order & telegraph office church affor~s 500. s~ttm~s. The reg1ster dates from the Wall Letter Box, near Dolphin P.H. cleared week day~~; , year 1547. The hvmg 1s a rectory, net yearly value' 1 1.20 a.m. & 6.25 p.m. & sundavs ro.1o a.m £720, including 48 acres of glebe, with residence, in 1\ . ' the gift of New College, Oxford, and held since 191o [ Pubhc Elementary Schools. by the Rev. Paul Jerome Kirkby M.A. Fellow of that Endowed, erected towards the close of the 17th century- ' college. The advowson, which ancientlv belonged to the & endowed with £3o yearly & a master's house, for monks of :&men, was seized by Henry V. during the war ho_vs of the parishes of Saham Toney, Threxton & with France, and subsequently presented by Henry VI. I lVatton; the school will hold go boys; average attend- to New College, Oxford. Humphrey iPrideaux, dean of 1 ance. 6o; Benjamin Platt, master Norwich, author of "The Connection of the Old and 1 Girls' & Infants', for 100 children; average attendance, New Testament with the History of the Jews and j 91; Miss Agnes Briggs, mistress . Neighbouring Nations," and other works, was rector Infants', for 40 children; average attendance, 32; Miss here in 1686. There are Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist ~ Mason, mistress (Marked thus* receive letters through Bullen Joseph, farmer Mace Henry Thos. plumber,painter &c - Shipdbam.) 'Carter George, coal merchant Mace Robert, miller . PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Clarke John James, Dolphin P.H Middleton Alfred, farmer Downs Mrs Disdle William, carpenter Newton Alfred, poultry dealer George Sydney S. White house Etberidge George, farmer Newton Arth. assist.overseer & farmer Hines Rev. Charles Percy B.So., Etheridge James, coal dealer Newton Charles F. farmer, overseer A.K.C. Saham college Fickling Alfred, blacksmith & assessor & collector of taxes,~ Kirkby Rev. Paul Jerome M.A. Fickling Fredk. farmer, Page's Place Meadow farm (rector), Rectory Fickling John, farmer Newton Harry, beer retailer Naylor Henry, Saham cottage I Fickling Martha (Miss), shopkeeper Newton William, higgler Oldfield Waiter, The Croft Fielding Sydney, Bell inn Newton William Feakes, farmer Randolph Capt. Charles James J.P. Fox Charles, farmer, Park farm. Page John, farmer Saham hall French Charles William, farmer *Probyn Howard John, farmer,Saham- upcher Rev. Harry Berners B.A. Gapp Jas. farmer, Woodbottom farm Weight Broom hill Garner William E. horse slaughterer Pye Thomas C. beer retailer Upcher Ronald Berners, Sabam lodge *Hall John, horse breeder, Stud Read Charles, baker farm, Saham grove Riches Robert, shopkeeper COMMERCIAL. Harvey Alfd. Ernest, brick & tile ma Roberts Henry, White Horse P.H Adcock Georg-e, boot maker Harvey Joseph, farmer Rose Philip William, boot maker Armiger S. A. (Mr:,s. ), beer retailer Hines Rev. Charles P., B.Sc., A.K.C. Royal Liver Friendly Society (Henry Bald win John, shopkeeper head master, Saham College J. Smith, district manager) Barton Frederick Sydney, farmer, Roughen Edward, chimney sweeper Saham Colle~e (Rev.Charles P. Hines '" oodcock cottage Jury Richard, shopkeeper, Post office, B.Sc., A.K.C. head master). See Brett Isaac, steward to C. J. Ran Saham Hill advertisement dolph esq Jennings Henry, farmer,Limekiln frn1 Smith Edward Earle, farmer, Brick- Bristow Robert, baker Johnson Henry, poultry dealer kiln farm Bull en Arthur, cattle dealer Lock John, grocer Wheals Ernest, grocer &c. & post off ST. FAITH, see Horsbam St. Faith. SALHOUSE (Salehouse or Sallowes) is a parish and chancel to Richard Ward, lieut.-col. East Norfolk militia village near the river Bure, with a station one mile south and officer of drag-oons, d. 1799, and others of his family, west from the village on the East K orfolk branch of the 1784-1821: to Henry and Richard Dalrymple, d. 1784; Great Eastern railway, 6 miles north-east from Norwich, and to Robert Ward esq. d. 1843, and his wife Lydia, d. in the Eastern division of the county. Taverham hundred r839: an inscription on brass to Henry Tyllis, c. 1540, and petty sessional divi;.inn, St. Faith's union, Norwich once here, is now lost ; it was a palimpsest, and had on county court district, rural deanery of Taverha.m and the reverse another inscription to Rd. Gardener, chaplain, archdeaconry and diocese of Norwich. The church of All c. 1500: there are also memorial windows to Richard and Saints is a. building of flint with stone dressings chiefly in Elizabeth Ward and to John R. Campling: in the church the Gothic style of the 13th century, consisting of chancel, are an hourglass stand and two ancient stone coffins : nave, north aisle, 1outh porch and an embattled western it was entirely restored and a south porch built in 1881 tower, erected in the 15th century and containing 2 bells: at a cost of over £2,000, and has 170 sittings. The there is also a sanctus bell hung in a screen, restored and register dates from the year 1568. The living is a vicar opened in 1895: there are several mural tablets to the age, consolidated with that of Wroxham, joint net yearly family of Ward, formerly of Walcot, including one in the value {.220, including 14 acres of glebe, with residence, NORFOLK 28• .