• - 7 140 ELMHAM. NO-RFOLK. (KELLY S

hall, library, class rooms & dormitories, together Publiu Elementary School (mixed), rebuilt in 1873 at a with a head master's residence: the chapel, erected in rost of about £700, and endowed with lands of aboui I 883, & consecrated 16 Oct. in that year, is an edifice £14 yearly value; the school will hold 212 children; of Bath stone, in the Early English style; the pulpit, average attendance, r6o; William Guy, master · of Stoke stone, is a memorial to the late B. Watson t>sq. & there is a lectern of oak: the chapel seats 2.~o Railway Stations. boys. Capt. Harry H. Stileman R.N. supt.; J. B. , William J. Hood. station master Love M.A. head master; Rev. Basil C. Pownall M.A. County School, Waiter Tallent, station master resident chaplain & correspondent; Mrs. Biggs,matron Carrier :-Pleasance Nichol, to , moo. wed. & fri PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Cordy Edith (Miss), confectioner North Elm ham Cricket Club (Phili~ Blower Mrs. The Paddock Craske & Son, fishmongers J. Pye, hon. sec) Bradfield Henry Day Ellen (Miss), grocer North Elmham & District Horticultural Kerrison Frank Winter East Dereham District of the Manches· Society (John Rook, sec) Mace :\irs ter Unity, Oddfellows Friendly So- North Elmham Miniature Rifle Club Love J. B., M.A.. (head master), ciety, "Loyal Milles Lodge," (F. W. Kerrison, hon. sec) Watts Naval Training School (Frederick Wilby, sec) Pease 'rhomas, farmer, Spong farm Middleton Charles Wiley Fenn Frank Mansell, farmr.Broom grn Rackham Arthur Richd.M.R.C.S.Eng .• Norton Miss Fulcher William Glaister, farmer, & L.R.C.P.Edin. surgeon & med.officeT Pearce Miss land steward to Earl Sondes & public vaccinator, North Elmham Pownall Rev. Basil C., M.A. (chap- Gay Henry, coach builder district, Mitford & Launditch union, lain), Watts' Naval Training School Goffen Frederick, butcher & medical officer to Watts' Naval Rackham A.rthur Richard Gray Robert, coal &c. mer. Statio11 Training- Uollege Ray John Norman Reynolds Grummett Alfred John, fish merchnt Reading Rooms (Wa.:t. J. Futter,librn) Stileman Capt.Harry H., R.N. (supt.), Hampton Francis George, photo- Riches Georgina (Mrs.), farmer Watts' Naval Training School grapher, assistant overseer & clerk Rix William George, plumber Townsend Rev. Ernest Horace M.A. to the Parish Council Rook John, grocer & draper . Vicarage Hewett Richard, saddler Scott Alfred, farmer COMMERCIAL. Hopson Sidney, farmer, Silverstone Seaman & Son, millers Adams William, butcher Howard Edward, farmer,Grange farm Senter Ha.rriet (Mrs.), farmer A.dderson Fdk. Chas.King's Head P.B Howell George, farmer, Broom green Stone William John, farmer Anderson Alfred, boot maker Howlett Frederick, farmer Tombling Horace, Railway tavern Anderson Henry, cycle agent Jeckell Frank, farmer Tombling Jacob, carpenter • Babbage William Henry, registrar of Jeckell William, farmer Tuddenham Arthur, farmer, Old hall births & deaths for North Elmham Johnson & Sons, farmers, Foxburrow Tye Thomas Wm. grocer & drape:r sub-district farm Watts Naval Training School, in con- Baldwin Robert John, draper Kerrison Robert, grocer & sub-post- nection with the National In- Bone John Frederick, coach buildeT master corporated Waifs' Association (Dr. Bradfield Christmas, pork butcher Lake Rebecca (Mrs.), baker & confr Barnardo's &mes) (Capt. Harry Bunn George, farmer, Black Hills frm Low Alfred, farmer H. Stileman R.N. supt. ; J. B. Clark Brightmer, farmer Matsell William, beer retailer Love M. A.. head master; Rev. Basil Clark -lamBS, farmer Melonie William, Railway tavern C. Pownall M.A. chaplain & corre- Clark Lucretia (Mrs.), farmer Milk George, miller (water), Worth- spondent; Mrs. Biggs, matron) Clarke Goorga William, George & ing mill Wells R. & Co. saddlers Dragon P.H Myhill Geo~.~ge, shoe maker Willby Frederick, bricklayer Clarke Thomas Henry, farmer Neal Brothers, builders & contractors Williamson David, farmer Coppen Royal, farmer Nicholson John & Frederick, farmers Willimont. John & George, coal mers is a straggling village and parish on the south register dates from the year 1558. The living is a rectory, side of the river Wensum, 5~ miles east-north-east from net yearly value £2oo, including 16 acres of glebe, with Dereham station on the Wymondham and Wells section residence, m the gift of the Misses Clarendon-Hyde, and of the Great Eastern railway, and about the same dis- held since 1900 by the Rev. Henry A.rthur Spencer tance south-west from station on the Midland A.twood. Here is a Primitive Methodist chapel. A and Great Northern 'oint railway, in the_Northern divi- Reading room was opened in 1903. The church lands of ~irm of the county, Eynsford hundred and petty sessional 24 acres produce £25 yearly. Charities of £8 yearly division, union, Dereham county value are distributed in money. Elsing Hall, the pro­ Cl>Urt district, rural deanery of Sparham and arch- perty of the Misses Clarendon-Hyde, is a very fine and dPaconry and . The church, dedicated interesting moated mansion, of Late Perpendicular date, about 1323 to St. Mary, is a fine building of flint of the the north front being of rubble and freestone and the Decorated period, consisting of chancel, nave, sacristy, south front of half-timbered work: the entrance hall with north and south porches and an embattled western tower, its porch and the chapel are principal ancient features: with pinnacles, containing 5 bells: in the chancel is a the windows of the remaining portion have been restored: fine and elaborate, though mutilated brass to Sir Hugh the porch bears the anns of Hastings and Foliot quarterly de Hastings, founder, in 1347, of the church; one of the (Margery, daughter of Richard Foliot, having married missing figures from this brass, viz. that of Roger, hefore 1330 Hugh de Hastings, a younger son of John, Lord Grey, of Rnthyn, was in rgo6 discovered by Mr. Lord Bergavmmy), impaling Morley; it is now (1912) Albert Hartshmne F.S.A.. in the Fitzwilliam Museum, at occupied by John Highfield Leigh esq. The Misses Cambridge: this figure has since been restored to its Clarendon-Hyde, of Elsing Manor, who are ladies of the original place,_ and the brass secu~ely fixed a.nd P.ro- manor, and Edward Henry Evans-Lombe esq. D.L., J.P. tected by foldmg doors, by the Society of Anhquanes, of Thickthorn, Norwich, are the principal landowners. of London: in the nave, which is of unusual width. The soil is mixed, part light, part heavy; subsoil, same. stands an octagonal font, also of the Decorated period The principal crops are barley and wheat. The area is and of very good design:. its canopy, once of rare 1,552 acres of land and 13 of water; Tateable value, beauty, is some':'"hat later m date than. the font, and £r,754; the population in 19II was 320. has a central spue, supported on traceried panels and Parish Clerl- Frederick Kendall pinnacled buttresses, the panels still bearing traces of ~. · rolour and gilding; considerable remains of a. rich· screen Post Office.-Henry Love, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive also exist: the chancel retains a piscina and sedilia and through East Dereham at 8 a.m. & 12.15 p.m. & are thPre i~ a holy water ~toup at the north door: the organ dispatched at 12 noon & 5· 55 p.m.; sundays at I0.$5 was presented in 1902 by w. L. Boyle esq. M.P. and a.m. is the nearest money order & Mrs. Boyle: two windows in the chancel have been filled telegraph office, 3 miles distant ·with 14th century glass, found in the church in 1901: Mill Pillar Box, cleared at 5·45 p.m.; sundays, 9·45 a memorial brass wa~ erected in the chancel in IqJo to a.m.; Hall box, cleared at I2.1o & 6.15 p.m.; sun- the memory of Catherine, the widow of the Rev. G. D. days, 8 a.m Atwood, rector. of Hinton, Northants: there are also Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in 1876, at a memorials to the Brown and Green families: the church cost of £46o, for Bo children; average attendance, 73; was restored in 1866, and affords 200 sittings. The Miss Longbottom, mistress PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bmhell William, builder, contractor, A.twood Rev. Henry A.rthur Spencer, COMMERCIAL. well sinker & pump maker Rect