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PBIV.A.T-11J. BEjiDENTS. Scott Miss, Hellesdon lodge Gowing Charles Gambling, farmer~ Bullard Lady, Hellesdon house . Sykes Arthnr :M.R.C.S.Eng. & Manor house, Upper Hellesdon Gowing Charles. Gambling, Manor L.R.C.P. London (assist. medical Gowing Frank, farmer, Hill house, hQuse, Upper. Hellesdon officer, Norwich City Lunatic Asy- Lower Hellesdoa Gowing Frank1 Hill ho. Low.Hellesdn lnm) Read Frank C. cucumber, tomato & Harris William M.D. St. Andrew's Ward Rev. Sydney Chas. B.A.(curate) melon grower . · university, F.R:o.S. & M.R.C.P. · Royal Norwich Golf Club (Campbell Edin., M.R.O.S.Eng. & M.S.A. COMMEBCIAL. • Steward esq. hon. sec.); o:fllces* Lond. (resident medical superin- Cnnnell Thomas Arthur, manufac- King_ Street house, Upper King st tendent, , Norwich City , Lunatic turer of bricks & tiles & lime Asylum) burner, Upper llellesdon & Old (The remainder of names in Belles- Holmes Thomas W. Wensum mount Catton don are now iiven under ~orwich.) .

HELLINGTON is 11 parish and village, 4 miles south St. :Mary. There are several small bequests for the from Buckenham station, an the Norwich and Lowestoft bem•lit of the poor, the principal being those of Me!!srs. seclion of the Great Eastern railway and 6 south-east from Cocks, Seaman and Barham. Sir Charles Henry Stuart Norwich, in the &uthern division of the county, Loddon Rich hart. of Levyl's Dane, Merrow, Surrey, who is lord hundred, Loddon and Clavering petty sessional division of the manor, John Marcon esq. J.P. of Edgefield, Richard :and union, county court district of Norwich, rural deanery H. Denny esq. of Framingham Cottage, Norwich, and tDf Brpoke (Western division), archdeaconry of Norfolk and Doughty's Hospital, Norwich, are the principal landowners. .diocese of Norwich. The church of St. John the Baptist The soil is mixed ; subsoil, loam. The chief crops are Jis a small building of Hint and stone in the Perpendicular wheat, barley &; roots. The area is 528 acres; rateable -.style, consistiilg of chancel, nave, .south porch, with a fine value, £411 ; the population in 1901 was So. :Norman doorway, and a round western tower containing Parish Clerk, Frank Bu,ttle. ,... one bell: the east window is stained : the church was .• restored by Cyrus Gillett esq. of Holverston Hall, and has Letters through Norwich, via Framingham Earl, arrive at ~ 8o sittings. The register dates from the year 1562. The 8.30. Burgh Apton is the nearest money order office & living is a rectory, net yearly value £85, including 12 Trowse Newton the nearest telegraph ,station, about 4! . , acres of glebe, in the gift of Sir 0. H. Stuart Rich hart. miles distant . aad held since r8S8 by the Rev. fhilip William Blyth, of The children of this parish attend Rockland St. Mary & . ·"St. Bees, who is also rector of and resides at Rockland Claxton schools Mack £dward, farmer, overseer & IYallop George, market gardener [ Yallop James, market gardener churchwarden, The :Rookery

' ):[EM:BLINGTON is a parish and village, 3 miles he resides. There is a Mission Room here. Henry Ran­ north-east from Brundall station on the Norwich and Yar­ dall Bnrroughes esq. of Burlingham Hall, who is lord of mouth section of the Great Eastern railway and 8 east­ the manor, and Major Robert Herbert Heath Jary, of by·north from N9rw'ch, in the ;Eastern division of the Biiteswell Hall, Lutterworth, Leicestershire, and South oounty, Blofield and Walsham petty sessional division, Walsham, are the principal landowners. The soil is Walsham hundred, Blofield union, Norwich county court mixed; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley district, rural deanery of Blofield and archdeaconry and and roots. The area is 752 acres; rateable value, £823 ~ diocesE:~ of Norwich. The church of All Saints is a small the population in 1901 was 200. building of rubble in the Gothic style of the 15th century, Parish Clerk, Edward Crowe. oonsisting of chancel, nave, south porch and round western tower containing 2 bells : there are 130 sittings. The re· Letters through Norwich arriv~ at 7 a.m. & are dispatched gister dates from the year 1561. The living is 8 vicarage, from Blofield corner, which is the nearest post office, at net yearly value £73• including 28 acres of glebe, in the 6.35 a.m. & 4·46 p.m. The nearest money order & tele- ,gift of the Dean and Chapter of Norwich, and held in graph office is at Blofi81d, about 2 miles distant sequestration since 1904 by the Rev. James Percy Garrick Wall Letter Box cleared at 6.50 a.m. & 4·40 p.m.; no .M.A of Caius College, Cambridge, hon. canon of Nor- collection on snndays wich, and also rural dean and rector of Blofield, where The children attend the Elementary School in BlofiP-ld Easter Mrs Hargrave Arth. Chas. farmer, Hall fm 'Moore John, blacksmith COMMEl£CIAL. Jermy James, plumber &c Neave George, farmer 'Evans William Robert. thatcher Loynes George, shoe maker Weston Goofrey William, farmer Feek John, wheelwright Mayer Benjamin, bricklayer • HEMPN ALL is a parish and considerable village on fourths to be expended on general parish purposes, sub­ ·the river Taas, 3~ miles south-!!ast from Flordon station ject to the approval of the Charity Commissioners. The -on the Ipswich and Norwich section of the Great Eastern poor's land allotment produces £22 7s. 6d. yearly, which railway, 9 south from Norwich and 7 north-west from sum is principally applied in aid of the poor rates. Row's 'Bungay, in the Southern division of the county, Depwade charity of Ios. yearly, left in 1662; and 3s. 4d. yearly ·hundred; petty sessional division and union, Harleston from an unknown donor, are distributed trie.or.ially in --county court district, rural deanery of Depwade, arch­ bread to the poor at Easter. In June, 1854, in a field to ·deaconry of Norfolk and llioce8e of ~rwich. The !fhurch the eaA~t of the c!turch, remains were found of an exten­ of St. Margaret is an ancient building of flint with stone sive burying ground of the Brftish and Anglo-Roman dressings, in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, period, containing cinerary urns, burnt bones and ashes ; consisting of nave, aisles, south porch, with priest's the urns measured 14 inches in diameter, and haFe been chamber over, used as a vestry, aRd an embattled west­ placed in the British Museum. Fairs were formerly held enl tower surmounted by a wooden bell-turret contain­ here on Whit Monday and on the IIth December yearly, ing a clock and one bell: there are inscribed tablets to but have been now for some time abolished. Hempnall the Rev. Robert Rolfe B.A. go years vicar of this parish, House, built in 1871 by T. JS:. Ward esq. is now the d. 3 Nov. 1850; Elizabeth, his wife, and two daughters; property of R. H. Inglis Palgrave esq. of Belton, near to the Rev. Robert Rose Rolfe, B.A. son of the above, 7 Great Yarmouth: it is pleasantly situated, having a years curate of this parish, d. 19 Aug. 1846; and Harriet southern aspect, and is approached by two drives ; the Ann, his widow ; and to Henry Robert Rolfe, his eldest grcunds are well laid out: the house is now (1904) oc­ son, who died of fever at Jubbulpore, India, 6 Aug. 1863, cupied by the vicar. The principal landowners are John and a brass tablet to the Rev. George Thomas Hall B.A. Stanley Matt esq. of Barningham Hall, who is lord of the vicar here 1852-85·, who died in 1885 and to 6 of his manor; Mrs. I. H. Irby, of Boyland Hall, Morning­ children: the interior was thoroughly restored in 1857 at thorpe; R. H. Ing-lis Palgrave esq. of Belton, the trustees 0 a cost of £1,400 and affords 451 sittings, 323 being free. of the late John Hotson esq. and the trustees of the late The register dates from the year 1560. '!'he living is a Mr. Thomas Betts, of Fritton : there are also several vicarage, net yearly value abaut £270, including 48 acres small holders. The soil is clay; subsoil, clay and gravel. of glebe, in the gift of the trustees of John Stanley Matt The chief crops are wheat, barley and beans. The area esq. and held since 1894 by the Rev. Augustine Brutton is 3,659 acres; rateable value, £3,810; the population M.A. of Queen's College, Oxford. The Wesleyan chapel m• 1901 was 759· here, erected in 1839, was rebuilt in 1895 at a cost of Parish Clerk, Henry Bertram. £7oo, the Primitive Methodists chapel was built in 1837. The land belonging to the Feoffee trust is now (1904) let Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., E. D., S. B. &; A. & I. for £7o a year gross rental; the net proceeds are appor­ Office.-March Hazell, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive tiQned as follcws one fourth to the schools, one fourth from Norwich & are delivered at 7 a.m. & 3 p.m. to the repairs of the church, and the remaining two- (letters to residents of Hempnall Groen are not de-