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Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., E. D., P. P., S. B. & Public Elementary School (mixecl), erected in 1858, by A. & I. Office.-Thomas Ed. Sutherland, sub-post- the late William Hogge esq. for r6o children; average master. Letters are received through Lynn ·by mail attendance, 140; Tom Webster, master; Miss Ella cart; delivered at 7·5 a. m. & 2.30 p.m.; dispatched at Pearmain, infants' mistress; the parish has also th~ 9.30 a.m. & 4.50 p.m. ; sundays, 4.50 p.m right of sending 4 children to Brancaster free school Ames Major Oswald, The Manor Cobb Henry, saddler & harness maker Johnson William, baker house; & 15 Cambridge square, Cooke Robert, apartments Jones Thomas William, farmer W Dix John, cowkeeper Lewis Frederick, baker Ames-Lyde Mrs. Thornham cottage Docker James Wm. grocer & draper Morris John, wheelwright Elsum William Henry, A.lbert house Grange Ernest, farmer, Redhouse frm Pointer Charles, farm bailiff to George- Heading George, Thornham hall Green William, shoe maker Heading esq. Manor farm Johnson Miss, Beech cottage Groundsell Geo. bricklayer, The Grn Potter Fanny (Mrs.), apartments., Legh Major the Hon. Gilbert, Drove Hain~s Thomas & Edward, butchers Primrose cottage house; & 5 Uromwell rd. LondonSW Headmg George, farmer, Hall & Powell James, blacksmith Wailer Rev. Wathen Hy.M:.A..Vicarage Manor farms Renaut Edward, farmer Helsdon Henry William, butcher, Savage Frederick, Chequers inn COMMERCIAL. assistant overseer & rate collector Seapey George, farmer Amea-Lyde, Elaum & Co. smiths, IIickman Frank, aparts. Chestnut ho Tipple Robert, carpenter makers of all kinds of useful & orna- Howard George William, carpenter, Tipple William, cowkeeper mental wrought iron work, entrance joiner, painter & decorator Walker Haylet, farm bailiff to C. V~ gates, railings, signs, electric light Howard Samuel, King's Head inn & Young esq. Malthouse farm fittings &c. Architects' designs exe- farmer Water.field Sylvanus, beer retailer cuted with great care. Telegrams, Johnson James, grocer & draper Woods Charles, bricklayer "Elsnm, Thornham" Johnson Robert William, shopkeeper Woods Natbaniel, coal dealer Callaby Harriet (Mrs.),aparts.Rose cot Johnson W. R. grocer & draper Yaxley Samson, blacksmith THORPE-NEXT·HADDISC

THORPE ABBOTTS is a parish and village on the Suffolk (d. rgoo), who are lords of the manor, and th~ banks of the Waveney, taking its suffix from the abbots Misses E. and M. Kay, of 37 Hyde Park gardens, London of Bury St. Edmunds, who formerly held the land; it W. are the principal landowners. The greater part of is 4! miles east from Diss ·station on the Ipswich and the cottage ~roperty in this parish was purchased by Norwich section of the Great Eastern railway, in the the late Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Ebenezer Kay P.C. Lord: Southern division of the county, Earsham hundred and Justice of Appeal; the estate lies partly in this parish petty sessional division, union of Depwade, Harleston and partly in the adjoining parish of ; a deep county court district, rural deanery of Redenhall, arch­ well was sunk and a pump erected in the centre of the deaconry of Norfolk and diocese of Norwich. The church village, at a cost of £wo, by the late Lord Justice Kay of A.ll Saints is a building of flint in the Perpendicular P.C. who died in r8g7. The soil is heavy and light lands,.. l!tyle, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a west­ mixed; subsoil, clay and gravel. The chief crops arB" ern tower, round at the base and octagonal above: the wheat, barley and roots, in usual proportions. The area east window is a memorial to the Rev. William Wallace, is r,r69 acres; rateable value, £r,o66; the population a former rector, and there is another to the late John in rgor was 208. By an Order, which came into operation Lanchester King: in r889 a tablet of white marble was March 25, 1885, a detached part of Brockdish was amal­ erected to Lady Kay by her husband: the church was gamated with this pa·rish. restored and new roofea in r888 at a cost of £220, and Sexton, Frederick Chilver. affords 140 sittings : new iron gates have been erected in the churchyard, which is surrounded with trees. The Post & Postal Order Office.-Harry A.. Debenham, sub· register dates from the year 1560, and is in a good state postmaster. Letters through Scole R.S.O. delive,red of preservation. The living is a rectory, net yearly value 7.ro & 11.20 a.m. (callers only); dispatched, 8.55 a.m. £2oo, including 17 acres of glebe, with residence, in the & 6.45 p.m. ; sun day delivery, 7· ro a. m. ; dispatched,. gift of Col. James Colquhoun Revell Reade, of Crowe 10.25 a.m. Brockdish is the nearest money order &. Hall, Stutton, Suffolk, and held since 1876 by the Rev. telegraph office, 2 miles distant Edmond James Gaussen B.A.. of Trinity College, Dublin. Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in r862, for The poor have £5 yearly in fuel. The trustees of the 6o children; average attendance, 40; Miss Laura Kellr late Edmund William Holland esq. of Benhall Lodge, mistress Gaussen Rev. Edmond James B..A. Daniels John, farmer Manning William, farm bailiff to th~ Rectory Debenbam Harry .Alonzo, grocer & Misses Kay COMMERCIAL, blacksmith, Post office Mark Mary (Mrs.), farmer Brundle W alter Barnabas, farmer Elsden Edward Beard, farmer Reeve 1Villiam, farmer Chenery William, wheelwright Hart John, farmer Valiant Wm. Lion P .H. et bricklayer THORPE MARKET is a parish and village on the south porch and a western tower, with pinnacles, but ha• road from Norwich to Cromer, r! miles east-by-north from no bells : the church has been restored and reseated, to­ Gunton station on the East Norfolk section of the Great gether with new altar rail and pulpit, principally at the­ Eastern railway, 7 north-east from .Aylsham, 4! south­ cost of Lord Suffield and his family, according to designs east from Cromer and 4l north-west from North Walsham, made by Mr. H. J. Green, diocesan architect, of Norwich, in the Northern division of the county, North Erpingham and affords 130 sittings. The register dates from the hundred and petty sessional diviilion, Erpingham union, year 1723. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the North Walsham county court district, rural deanery of rectory of Antingham, joint net yearly value £329, in­ Repps and archdeaconry and diocese of Norwich. The cluding 42 acres of glebe, in the gift of Lord Suffield, church of St. Margaret is a modern building of flint with and held since r889 by the Rev. A.rthur Charles Davies stone facings, in the Decorated style, consisting of nave, B . .A. of St. John's College, Cambridge, who resides at