DIRECTORY.] . GREAT MEL'fON. of Melton Comtable date from the year I55I. The Swanston Great Wood, famous as a preserve for wood­ living is a rectory, net yearly value [,u2, including 84 cock shooting, is upon this estate. The stud farm and acres of glebe, in the gift of Lord Hastings, and held paddocks, which adjoin the park, are -celebrated as the since I9II by the Rev. .A.rthur Hedley Crowe M . .A. {)f birth-place of the Derby winner "Melton," and the Durham University, who is also rector of and resides Home farm for its herd. of red polled cattle, Ta.mworth at . The ancient church of St. Mary, pigs and a 11tud of shire horses. A lamb sale is held Burgh Parva, or Melton Burgh, is in ruins; a temporary here annually during the first week in July. Lord iron church having been recently erected until sufficient Hastings is lord of the manor and sole landowner. The lunds are in hand to build a permanent structure. soil is mixed; subsoil, clay. The ·chief crops are wheat, The living, which is annexed to , is a rectory, joint oat;;, barley, turnips and grass. The area is 1,698 acres .net yearly value {,250, in the gift of Lord Hastings, and of land and 24 of water; rateable value, £5,195; the held since IQI2 by the Rev. John Hill Wooster M . .A. {)f population in 1911 was 1,157· Merton College, Oxford, who is also vicar of Briston Post, M. 0., T. & Expres~ Delivery Office (letters should and resides there. The extensive repairing shops and have Norfolk added).-Miss Ellen Linder, sub-post­ _permanent way depot of the Midland and Great Northern mistress. Letters are delivered at 7 a.m. (for callers joint railway are situated here. The Railway Institute, only at 12.15 p.m.) & 4 p.m.; dispatched at 11.45 opened in I 8q6, and enlarged in IQIZ, for the use a.m. & 5·45 p.m. via , 6.15 p.m. (motor mail) of the employPs, comprising reading and billiard via Dereham, 6.45 p.m. via Norwich & at 7·45 p.m. via rooms, dining and coffee rooms, a library of 2,5oo Peterborough. Sunday, delivered at 7 a.m.; dis­ volumes, and also a large hall for public meetings patched at 6. IS p.m. No postal business on sun days and entertainments. There is a recreation ground except telegraph from 8.30 to 10 a.m. Wall Letter Box of 9 acres, leased by the Parish Council from Lord at railway station, cleared at 11.30 a.m. & 5.15 & Hastings. Hall, the seat of Lord 6 p.m. week days only Ha~tings, is a rectangular mansion of brick and stone. ~Iid.land & Great Northern Joint Railways (locomotive -to which various additions have been made, including a department), William Marriott, district engineer & corridor over Ioo feet long, connecting the hall with the locomotive superintendent; A.lbert E. Langley, assi!lt­ wing on the site of the old hall; the house is sur­ ant engineer; William Newman, works manager; David ll"Ounded by elegant terraces, inclosed by ornamental Vickery, permanent way inspector; Edgar George grounds, and affords a fine v.iew of the large lake; it is Palmer, chief clerk in district engineer's office; Geo . .situated in an extensive and well-timbered park, which Ratcliff, architect is stocked with red and fallow deer, being the ;;;ec.md l-Jark in where the red deer were introduced; A Committee of 6 managers was formed in October, the various apartments contain a fine collection o! 1903; Arthur G. Newman, corresponding manager; valuable paintings and porcelain. Melton "ll"as granted I. W. Tuck, Warham, Wells, attendance officer .by the Norman Conqueror to .A.rfastas, Bishop of Thet­ Public Elementary School (mixed & infants), erected in .ford, of whom it was held by Roger de Lyons, ''l"hose 1896 & enlarged in Igoo & I9o6, for 320 children; descendant~; assumed the name of Mealton, and some­ average attendance, 210 mixed & 88 infants; Alfred times signed themselves De Constable. from the ufiice Hamer, master; Miss Ellen E. Locke, infants' mistress which they held under the Bishop; it has now been for Railway Station, Waiter William Copland, station master centuries the seat of the Astleys, Baron Hastings. '!'be & goods agent PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Fuller Ernest, hair dresser Railway Institute (.Arthur Q. New­ Hastings Rt. Hon. Lord J.P. Melton Gascoigne John, farm bailiff to Lord man, sec. ; H. Ellwood, caretaker) Constable hall; Rachelors' club W; Hastings Ratcliff George, architect to M. & G. Carlton club S W & Turf club W, Goddard Richard Owen F.A.I. estate N. Joint Railway agent to Lord Hastings, The Estate Rose Alfred A. baker, Briston road Goddard Richard Owen F.A.I. Dairy offices, Melton Constable park Sanitary Committee (H. S. Hayward, house, Melton Constable park Harvey 'William, farmer, Burgh hall clerk) COMMERCIAL. Hayward Hezekiah S. assistant over- Shingler William, head gardener to Allard Frederick, head gamekeeper seer & clerk to Parish Council Lord Hastings to Lord Hastings, South lodge, Ives Arthur, signal inspector M. & Skrimshire & Gillam, physicians & Melton Constable park G. N. Railway, 17 Colville road surgeons, Briston road • Barclay & Company Limited, bankers Joice Geo. Wm. butcher, Gordon rd Skrimshire John Fenwick B.C. (firm, (sub-branch to Halt) (H. R. Tyler Langley .!lbert E. assistant engineer Skrimshire & Gillam), physician & attends wed. from I till 3 p.m.), M. & G. N. Joint Railway surgeon, & medical officer Briston Briston road; draw on head office, Lewis Herbert Fenn, estate plumber district of the union, 54 Lombard street, London E C Melton Constab:e Co-operative Society Briston road Hullard & Sons Ltd. brewers; stores Limited, drapers & provision dealrs. Skrimshira Henry Finch B . .A.Cantab., at station; head office, Nor"lfich (E. Tuck, manager), Briston road M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. (firm, Cheney Thomas, Hastings Arms corn- Melt on Constable Estate Club (W. G. Skrimshire & Gillam), physician & mercial hot{)} & posting house, Cooper, hon. sec) surgeon, & medical officer & public Briston road Melton Constable Horticultural So- vaccinator Melton Constable district, Chilvers Edward Hall, farmer,Culpit's ciety (Rev.Joseph Kaye, hon. sec.); union, Briston road farm show held August Bank holiday Smith W. H. & Son, booksellers,Rail­ Colman Arthur, grocer, Briston road Midland & Great Northern Joint Rail- way station Colman Robert, park keeper, Melton way Co. (William Marriott, loco- Stolworthy Herbert George, signal Constable park motive superintendent & engineer) dept. M. & G. N. Ry. 1 Grove rd Cooper Albert Herbert, clerk of Moy Thomas Limited, coal merchants, Territorial Battalion (5th) Norfolk works, Melton Constable park Railway station Regiment (Detachment of F Co. Cooper Herbert William,boot repairer Newman Arthur Q. corresponding Capt. H. N. Bridgwater) Cooper William G. hall carpenter manager to the day school man- Turbett Alexander Stewart, locomotive Cooter Arthur Wilfrid, draper agers & sec. to technical classes foreman M. & G. N. Ry.28Melton st Copland William Waiter, goods agent Nswman William, works manager M. Vickery David, permanent way in­ & station master, 14 Melton street & G. N. Joint Railway spector M. & G. N. Railway Fisher George William M.P.S.chemist Palmer Edgar G. chief clerk dist. en- Vinter .T. 0. & Son Limited, coal & artificial teeth maker & dealer in gineer's office, M. & G. N. Joint merchants, Railway station

photographic materials & apparatus Railway, r Melton street J Williamson Henrv• J. forester to Lord Freeman Arthur Herbert,estate clerk, Pask & Sons, tailors, Briston road Hastings Menagerie house, Melton Constable Raby Emma (Mrs.), butcher, Bris- park ton road GREAT MELTON, or Melton Magna, is a parish ment passed in 17Io, was allowed to fall into decay, between 3 and 4 miles north-west fr{)m Hethersett sta­ the church of St. Mary alone being used ; this church, tion on the Thetford and Norwich ~ection of the G. E. however, having in turn become much dilapidated, was railway, 6 west-south-west from Norwich and 4 east­ pulled down in 1883, since which All Saints church has north-P-ast from Wymondham, in the Southern division been rebuilt, a new north transept and vestry being of the county, Humbleyard hundred, Swainsthorpe petty added at a cost of about {,2,000: the present edifice is a sessional division, union of Hen stead, Norwi-ch countv• building of flint with stone dressings, chiefly in the court district, rural deanery of Humbleyard, archdea- Decorated style, and consists of chan-cel, nave, north conry of Norfolk and . Great Melton transept, south porch and a western tower containing 3 consi~ted of two distinct parishes, St. Mary and All bells: the chancel contains an Early English window~ Saints. consolidated in 1713 in the reign of Quoon Anne. removed from the church of St. Mary: the large east Both churches stood side by side in one churchyard, but window has been filled with stained glass in memory of All Saints church, in accordan-ce with an Act of Parlia- the Rev. Charles Eyres M.A. rector r851-77: there are