184 Bradenham (East). Basbam Samuel, farmer Fulcher W. H. steward to Messrs. Read William, farmer Chapman Robert, parish clerk ]'ulcher and Betts, agent to the Stringer Mrs. Alice, miller & baker Chapman William, higgler Royal Farmers' & General Fire, Stringer Robert, shopkeeper Cox Robert, blacksmith J,ife, and Hail Insurance Co.'s; Tbacker George, hawker Forster Miss Ellen D. National East Bradenham hall Thacker John, pig dealer schoolmistress Ga,gen John, farmer, Hill house Wheals Charles, farmer Fulcber Thomas, land steward to Goring- Waiter, farmer Wheals John, beer house & farmer Earl Sondcs Hart Hy. vi et. Lord Nelson Inn, Wheals Robert, blder. & whlright Fulcber Thos. and Mrs. Margaret and blacksmith Winter Rev Edwd. Geo. Adling- Betts, farmers, Manor farm, East Kemp John, farm bailiff, Leys farm ton, MA. rector, The Rectory Bradenham hall Nichols Robert P. shopkeeper BRADENHAM (WEST) is a parish of scattered houses, sepuated from East Bradenbam by a small rivulet, 3 miles W.N.W. of Shipdham, and 6~ miles E. of Swrtffha.m. It is in Swa.ffham union and couuty court district, South Greenhoe hundred and petty sessional division, Lyon bankruptcy district, rural deanery, and ' archdeaconry. It had 305 inhabitants in 1881, living on 1,682 acres, and has a rateable value of £2,762. The name Bradenham is said to be derived from Brad, broad, den, a valley, and ham, abode, "the abode in the woody valley." Most of the soil is the property of W. M. R. Haggard, Esq., J .P., D.L., who is lord of the manor. Bokenha.m Hall manor is the property of the Girling fa.mily. Capt. H. S. Adlington, J.P., and some smaller owners, have estates here. The CHURCH (St. Andrew), which stands on an eminence, is a ha.nds:>me structure in the Early English style, comprising nave, chancel, aisles, south porch, and massive square tower. The latter contains two bells of fine tone and a clock, and is detached from the south-west aisle of the nave. It was built probably in the thirteenth century. Thomas de Cailly, brother of Sir Osbert de Cailly, son of Sir Adam de Cailly, who died here as rector in 1318, i:i recorded on a monumental stone in the centre of the chancel. All the sittings are free, but appropriated from time to time by the churchwardens. It wu,s restored in 1850, when faculty and other pews were given up to the public by the lord of the manor and others. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners, as lay rectors, repaired and restored the chancel. The three west windows, in stained glass, and the east'window in· the chancel, are in memory of members of the Haggard family. They were executed by \Vailes, of Newcastle. The organ was given by the late Colonel Mason, of . 'l'he registers date from 1538, and are in excellent pre;;ervation. The livinq- is a discharged vicarage, valued in K.B. at £7 1s. 10d., now in the patronage of the Bishop of Norwich, and incumbency of the Rev. Henry Hetherington, A.K.C., who has a yearly tithe rent-charge of £169 9s., and a vicarial residence. The roctorial tithes are commuted for £218, and are in the hands of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The ScHooL, a brick building with good teacher's residence attached, was erected on a site given by William Haggard, Esq. The mansion-house was built in 1776, about a quarter of a mile from the old hall a Norman tower or castle surrounded by a moat. The manor was granted at the Conquest to William, Earl de Warrenne, of Castleacre. In 1087 Osmund de Kailly, or Cailly, a Norman knight, was infeoffed thereof by William, Earl Warren. In 1286 Sir Osbert de Cailly claimed, and it was found by a jury that he had, as lord of this manor, "free warren" here. In 1301 Roger de Clifton was esquire to Sir Thomas de Cailly, with Edward I. in his Scotch wars~ and married his sister Margaret, and his son, Sir Adam de Clifton, succeeded him. In 1432 Sir John de Clifton, of Buckenham Castle, was lord. His daughter .Margaret married Sir Andrew Ogard, or Agard, Knight Banneret, of Emneth, Norfolk, and of the Rye House, near \V are, Herts. He was governor of Wisbech Castle, and a distinguished warrior in the wars of Henry V. and Henry VI. in France, and, dying in 1454, without issue by that marriage, the manor reverted to the De Cliftons, from them to Sir John Knyvet (grandson of Sir John Kuyvet, Lord Chancellor of ), who married Elizabeth, sister of Sir John Clifton, and thence through various owners of that name to Sir Thomas Rede, of 1\lassingham, who married 2\Iildreda, daughter of Thomas Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, and died without issue in 1627. Sir William Wythepole and Leicester Devereux, Viscount Hereford, succeeded in right of their wives, the latter purchasing the share of George, Earl of Desmund (temp. Charles II.), and becoming sole owner, from whom it passed through several owners to Thomas Smyth, Esq. (1753), whose son sold it in'l817 to the grandfather of the present owner, viz., William Henry Haggard, Esq., barrister-at-law, of Lincoln's Inn, only son of William Henry Haggard, Esq., of the city of Norwich. The Haggard family, bearing the same arms as the above-na.msd Sir Andrew 0,5ard, are lineally descended from John Haggard, a freeholder in the parish of Ware, Herts (and churchwarden of it) A.. D. 1561. John Haggard, Esq., LL.D., the eminent civilian, and c >mpiler of "Haggard's Ecclesias­ tical and Admiralty R9ports," was a member of this family. The Fuel Ailotment, awarded at the en­ closure in 1802, consists of 14a.. 1r. 12p., let for about £15 a year, which is distribute:i in coal. L'md, &c., left to the poor by Richard Brotherwick and four other donors, in tha seventeenth century, was exchanged at the enclosure for 7a. OL'. 35p. and two cottages, lot for about £14 a year, which is distributed in coal. PosT, MoNEY ORDER, and S.A.VINGS B.A.NK at ::\Ir. Richard Shearing's. Letters arrive at 7 a.m., and. are despatched at 6.15 p.m. Sundays, despatched at 10,30 a.m., via Watton. Shipdham is the nearest Telegraph Office, Adcock James, farmer, Home farm Atthow George, farmer azi"d cattle Canham Wm. bricklayer and frmr Ad cock John, vi et. King's Head Inn dealer,-High farm Chaplin Chas. crpntr. and wheelwt Adcock Samuel, farmer and land Barrett J ames, far.ner and cattle Clarke Henry, victualler, Star Inn ag-ent, Grove farm dealer, Bridge farm Coker J ames (execntors of), far· Atthow Frederick, farmer and Bayfield William, gamekeeper mers, Bokenham manor cattle dealer, Manor farm Canham Bassett, farmer, South end Cooper Mrs Letitia, Ntl. schlmstrs