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DIRECTORY.] NORFOLK. W .ARH.AM ALL SAINTS. 505 Birkbeck esq. of West Acre, Swaffham, is lord of the Letters through Lynn arrive at 8 p.m. Gayton is the manor and landowner. The soil is very light sand. nearest money order & telegraph office The chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips. The a.rea Wall Letter Box cleared at 4·45 p.m.; sundays, 10.35 a.m is 2,6.13 aeres; rateable value, £1,232; the population in Public Elementary School (mixed), for the parishes of 1901 was 148. Gayton Thorpe & East Walton, erected in 1875• for 70 children; average attendance, 45; Mrs. Emma Jane Parish Clerk, William Gamble. Wix, mistress Barne Capt. Philip, The Abbey Burton Frederick, farm bailiff to Loades Wm. frmr. smith & whlwrght Crawford Rev. John Robert (vicar), Fernley Knight esq Nichols John, farmer Vicarage Gamble William, farmer, Summer end Welham William, gamekeeper to Hy. Gamble William, parish clerk COMMERCIAL. Birkbeck esq Knight Fernley, farmer Wilson George, shopkeeper & farme:r Brown William, Greyhound P.H Knight John, farmer WEST WALTON is a parish and village, on the river the manors of West Walton, Coleraine, West Walton-cum Nene, which here divides this county from Cambridge- Membris and West Wait-on Colville. The principal land shire, I mile east from Ferry station on the Peterborough owners are Lieut.-Col. Edward Southwell Trafford, of and Lynn section of the Midland railway and 5 miles from Wroxham Hall, and William Henry Trafford, Henry Smeeth Road station on the March and Lynn section of Houlden and Joseph Johnson esqrs. The soil is loam; the Great Eastern railway, 3 north-east from Wisbech subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, peas, beans and and 12 south-west from Lynn, in the North Western divi- potatoes; there is much pasture land, but of late years swn of the county, Freebridge Marshland hundred and a large acreage has been successfully devoted to fruit petty sessional division, union and county court district culture. The area is 5,512 acres of land, 35 of tidal water of Wisbech, rural deanery of Lynn Marshland, arch- and 36 of foreshore; rateable value, £9,377; the popula. deaconry of Lynn and diocese of Norwich. The church of tion in 1901 was 864. St. Mary, ·built about 1240, is an edifice of Barnack stone Dixon's End is in this parish, and Smeeth and Fe:a. in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, End extend into it. :aisles, fine south porch and a detached. tower standing Parish Clerk, John Copeman. -about 70 feet from the church and formmg a grand en- trance to the churchyard: it contains 5 bells, and is Post, T., E. D. & P. 0. Office, C'l;mrch End.-:-Alfd. Battley, believed to have originally had a lead-covered spire; the sub-postmaster. Let.te:s arrive from W1sbech at 7·30 west and north doorways are ornamented with carved a.~. & ~-40 p.m.; dispatched at 1.40 & 6.40 p.m. work: the church, which is still very much in need of W1sbech Is t~H~ nearest moner order office repair, affords 200 sittings. The register dates from the Post Office, ~Ighway. Zac~anah Hanley,sub-postmaster. year 1576. The living is a consolidated rectory, net yearly L_etters arrive through Wisbech at 7 a.m. & 1.5 p.m.; value £953· with 2 acres of glebe and residence, in the dispatched at 1.10 & 6 .. 30 p.m. The nearest money gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held since 1 873 hy order & telegraph office IS at Church End the Rev. Waiter Elliott Browne, of London University. Letter Boxes, Church End, cleared at 6 p.m. & Ingle- The mission church of St. Paul, situal!ed 1l miles from borough, 5.30 p.m. week days only the church, at the Highway, consists of chancel, nave Public Elementary School (mixed), Church End, built in :and vestries, and a bell-cot containing one bell: divine 1840, for 140 children; average attendance, 68; Mr. & service is conducted here by the clergy of the parish Mrs. Bryning, maste~ & mistress church. There is a Baptist chapel at the Fen end, and a . ,., . Primitive Methodist chapel at the Church end of the Railway ::Stations. parish. The poor's estate of 26 acres produces £100 Great Eastern (Smeeth Road), Fras. Hopkins,station mast yearly, which sum is distributed in money. Edward Midland (Ferry) (West of Nene), Henry James Saye, Hugh Jackson esq. of 7 North Brink, Wisbech, is lord of station master Borley Mrs. Poplar house Edgoose William F. coal & coke mer- Ingram George, farmer Browne Rev. Walter Elliott (rector) chant & manure agent Jewson John Thomas,builder,carpenter Fitt Rev. James B.A.(curate),Highway Farrow Thomas, farmer, West of Nene & wheelwright, Highway Grimmer Robert, Scotch firs Flint William Henry, farmer King George, blacksmith, Smeeth Grimmer Thomas, Highway Fretwell Henry, corn miller (wind & Leach Thos. & Rt. farmers, Highway Houlden Henry steam) Lucas Wm. beer retlr. Walton Dam Webb John Thomas Goodley Frederick, farmer, Fen Moules David, farmer GoodyerG'harles,Queen of Trumps P.H Oakley Gershon, shopkeeper COMMERCIAL. Green .Arthur, farmer, Marsland fen Perry John, beer retailer, Highway Acaster Joseph, farmer Greeves Emanuel, frmr. West of Nene Porter Peregrine, farmer, Highway Alexander William Edmd. beer retlr' Groves George, beer retailer, Highway Pratt Robert, jun. farmer llaker Miles, jun. farmer, Highway Hall George, farmer, Highway Pratt Waiter; frmr. Hill House farm Baker Waiter, beer retailer, Smeeth Hanley Zachariah, sub-postmast.er, Redhead William, farmer, Smeeth :'Balding Edmund, cattle dealer Highway Saye Henry Jam~s, station master, ·Balding Edmund Smithee, farmer Handley Clement, farmer, Highway Midland railway, Ferry, West of Batterham Geo. farmer & market gdnr Handley Zachariah, Post off. Highway Nene Batterham John, farmer, Priory farm Harrold Samuel, plough & agricultural Shipley John, farmer, West of Nene llattley Alfred, grocer, & sub-post- implement maker & blacksmith, & Smith Arthur, Ferry Boat P.H. master, Church end repairer of & agent for all kinds of West of Nene Benton George, shoe maker agricultural machines & cycle agent, Smi·th J oseph, farmer Bryning Simeon, schoolmaster, Church end Sutterby William, miller (wind) & far- Church end Holmes Kate (Mrs.), farmer mer, Highway Brynin.g Mary (Mrs.), schoolmistress, Hopkins Francis, station master Taylor George, farmer Churoh end G. E. R. Smeeth road Tombleson Frederick William Scott, Buck John, thrashing machine owner Horsley Robert, bricklayer farmer, Highway Buttery Joseph, beer retailer Houlden Henry, farmer, Church end Walpole Robert, farmer -<Jlark Arthur William, farmer Houlden William, farmer, Church end Ward John, farmer, West of Nene Cook J. & H. farmers HUJbbard William Henry, farmer & Wright Wilson, crpntr. & wheelwright .Cook John, farmer, Highway collector of drainage rates, Highway Young & Clayton, farmers Cook Williarn, farmer, Highway Hudson Augustine, butcher Young Wm. land measurer, Highway Copeman John, parish clerk Hudson Harry, blacksmith Young William, jun. farmer .Edgoose Benj. frmr. Honington house Humphrey John, farmer, Smeeth W ARHAM ALL SAINTS is a parish, near the se& main, and the arches of the arcades dividing the nave .shore, 2! miles south-by-east from Wells station on the and former aisles may be traced in the north and south Great Eastern railway, and 4 north from Walsingham, in walls of the present building: there are two brasses, a the Northern division of the county, North Greenhoe bun- small one of peculiar character to William Rokewode esq. dred and petty sessional division, Walsingham union and ob. 1474; and one, dated 1650, to some members of the eounty court district, rural deanery of Walsingham, arch- Framlingham family: the stained east window was pre deaconry of Lynn and diocese of Norwich. 'l'he church sented by the rector in 189'i, and who also, in 1897, pre of .All Saints is a building of flint, somewhat in the Deco- sented a marble and alabaster reredos with a carved rated style, but with Perpendicular windows, and consists group, representing "The Last Supper" : the church was of chancel, nave, transepts, south porch and a 1!mall west- restored, reseated and a fine carved oak pulpit added in ern bell gable with one bell: the church was formerly a 1877• at a total cost of £I,2oo: there are 200 sittings. mueh larger edifice; portions of a massive tower still re- The register dates from the year 1558. The living is a .