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OXWICK cum PATTESLEY form a parish 3~ miles Marquess Townshend, who is lord of the manor, George south from Town station and 3 east from Bird, sen. esq. of Beckham Hall, Mrs. M. M. Dixon, of Raynham Park station, both on the :VIidland and Great , and Lieut. G. Day R.N. are the principal Northern joint railway, and 3~ from Fakenham station landowners. The soil is chiefly a stiff loam ; subsoil, clay. and 3~ south-west from Hyburgh station, both The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and roots. The area on the Dereham and Wells section of the Great is 1,039 acres; rateable value, with Pattesley, £970; the Eastern railway, in the Mid division of the county, population in 1:891 was 86. Launditch hundred, union and petty sessional division of Parish Clerk, Richard Dungcr. Mitford and Launditch, county court district of East Letters are received through Fakenham at 8.30 a.m. Dereham, rural deanery of North Hrisley and Toftrees, arch­ v,·hissonsett is the nearest money order office & West deaconry of Lynn and diocese of . The church of Raynham is the nearest telegraph office All Saints is an ancient building of flint, in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, and a turret con­ The children of the parish attend the school at taining I bell : there are 86 sittings. The register dates PATTESLEY (or Pasley) is 3~ miles south from from the year 1538: there is also a list of rectors of the Fakenham. The church of St. John the Baptist has long parish from the year 1318. The living is a rectory, con­ disappeared, but fragments of its walls may be seen at the solidated in r883 with Colkirk, average tithe rent-charge west end of the farmhouse in the occupation of Mr. George £sr8, joint net yearly value £so3, including 8r acres of Corke. The lidng is a rectory annexed to the vicarage of glebe, in the gift of and held by the Rev. Walter Marsham Mattishall. Hoare M.A. of Exeter Coliege, Oxford, rural dean of North Brisley with Toftrees, who resides at Colkirk. The kennels Letters received through Fakenham. Whissonsett is the of Mr. F. E. Smith's harriers are situated here; meets are IIC

PANXWORTH is a village, 4~ miles north from (Panxworth) £ros, joint net yearly value £3zo, including Brundall station and 3 north from Ling-wood station on 58 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of Albemarle the Norwich and Yarmouth section of the Great Eastern Cator esq. of Woodbastwick Hall, and held since 1848 by the railway and 8 north-east from Norwich, in the Eastern Rev. Henry Peter Dunster M.A. of Hertford College~ division of the county, Elofield and Walsham petty Oxford, who resides at Woodbastwick. There is a Primitive sessional division, "'alsham hundred, Blofield union, ',Methodist chapel. Miss Julia Kerrison, of Ranworth Hall, Norwich county court district, rural deanery of Blofield and who is lady of the manor, and Henry Randal Burroughes archdeaconry and diocese of Norwich; for civil purposes it esq. J.P. of the Hall, Burlington St. Peter, are the chief forms part of Ran worth and is known as Ranworth landowners. The soil is a rich loam; subsoil, marl. 'fhe with Panxworth. For upwards of zoo years previous to chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area and 1847 there was no church in the parish, a ruined tower rateable value are given with Ranworth; the population in . alone marking the spot where the old church had once stood ; I 891 was 124. the tower was, however, repaired in 1847, and a nave added, Sexton, Aaron Edward Ward . . at the expense of the late Mrs. H. W. Hurroughes, and the Letters through Norwich arrive at 7 a.m. A Wall Letter- church now consists of nave, south porch and an embattled Box is cleared at 7.20 a. m. & 4.15 p.m.; no sunday western tower containing one bell: there are sittings for 120 collection. South Walsham is the nearest money order persons, rro being free. The register dates from the year office & Woodbastwick is the nearest telegraph office 1847· The living is a rectory, consolidated with the The children of this parish attend the public elementa,ry vicarage of Woodbastwick, average tithe rent-charge school at Ranworth Bugg James, farm bailiff to G. W. D. Raithby Harriet (Mrs.), Red Lion inn Walker David, farmer, Hall farm Palmer-Kerrison esq Southgate Robert Albert, horse breaker Ward Aa.ron Edwd. shopkpr. & sexton Chapman James, jun. corn merchant & Walker W. D. & A. E. maltsters; offices, miller (steam) Great Yarmouth & Bungay PASTON is a parish on the sea-shore, 4 miles north-east rural deanery of Waxham, 'funstead division, archdeaconry from North Walsham stations on the Great Eastern and of Norfolk and diocese of Norwich. The church of St. Mary Midland and Great Northern joint railways and 9 south-east garet, situated on rising ground, is a building of stone, in from Cromcr, in Eastern divi'lion of the county, Tunstead the Early Decorated style, consisting of chancel, south porch and Happing petty sessional division, hundred of Tunstead, and an embattled western tower containing 5 bells: in the Smallburgh union, North Walsham county court district, church is a fine monument, with recumbent effigy, by