NORFOLK. [KELLY S Bloomfield Alfred Hedges Alfred, Gamekeeper to Sir H.· Martin Edward, Dairyman Carritt Charles B
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1 490 SOUTH WOOTTOX. NORFOLK. [KELLY S Bloomfield Alfred Hedges Alfred, gamekeeper to Sir H.· Martin Edward, dairyman Carritt Charles B. T. Farqubar bart. M. P Nicholls Henry John, shopkeeper Qilbert Rev. Francis Parnell 1\I.A. Holmes Abraham, wheelwright & clerk Pinchen Edward, pig dealer Rectory to the parish council Pinchen Lewis, pig dealer Peek George Holmes John, coal dealer Stapleton Edward, farmer Street Robert William Kirby JametJ, market gardener Stapleton William (Mrs.), The Swan COMMERCIAL. Kirby William, assistant overseer P.H. & farmer Bloomfield Edward, farmer, :l\Ianor frm Marsters Matthew, parish clerk & sex- \Yarnes \Villiam, farmer Hardy John, farmer ton, Post office WORMEGA Y (or Wermia-ey) is a parish and village on Premonstratensian order, and declieated to SS. Mary, John the formerly navigable river Nar, 4 miles east from Magda the Evangelist and the Holy Ghost: in 1468 it became a len H.oad junction station on the Ely and Lynn section of the cell to Pentney, and at its dissolution had revenues esti Great Eastern railway and 7 south-south-east from Lynn, mated at £170. Here also was a castle, anciently the in the South Western division of the county, Clackclose hun residence of the Lords Bardolf, who acquired this lordship dred and petty sessional division, Downham rmion and through the marriage, in the rzth century, of Beatrix, county court district, rural deanery of Fincham, arch daughter and heir of William de Warrenne, with Doun deaconry of Lynn and diocese of Norwich. The church of Hardolf; the fortress was demolished in 1408 by Henry IV. St. Michael, a small and low but ancient thatched building but its site can still be traced. Henry Lee-Warner esq. of of stone, in the Early English style, situated about ~ a mile Walsingham Abbey, who is lord of the manor, Clement east from the village, and consisting of chancel and nave Edward Royds Bently esq. of West Bilney Hall, John James and a small em·battled western tower containing one bell, Coulton esq. of Little Ketlam, Pentney, William Boon esq. was almost entirely re-built with the exception of the of Tottcnhill and Curties' trustees are the principal land tower, in r893, under the direction of Mr. C. H. Lohr, of owners, but there are many small properties. 'The soil is London, at a cost of £r,rro, in much the same style; the various, peat and loam ; subsoil, sand and gravel. The nave roof forms a memorial to the late Rev. W. H. Henslowe chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, turnips and clover. M.A. so years vicar of Wormegay and Tottenhill, who died The area is 2,8ua. or. 2op. ; rateable value, [2,433 ; the Sept. 2nd, r89o, and the tower is now (1896) being restored population in 1891 was 431. .at a cost of £350, in memory of Mrs. Henslowe; the At Setch Bridge is the extensi'l"e brewery and maltings of church affords about roo sittings. The register dates from Messrs. George Hogg and Seppings. the year rs6r. The Jiving is a vicarage, united in I87I Parish Clerk, Hammond Neal. with that of Tdttenhill, average tithe rent-charge£ 20, joint Post Office.-William Watkins, sub-postmaster. Letters gross yearly value £26o,net £ 25o,including 22 acres of glebe, through Lynn arriYe at 8.ro a.m Letter Box cleared at with residence, erected in r8gz, in the gift of the Bishop of 5.25 p.m.; sundays at 10.30 a.rn. Postal orders are Norwich, and held sine~ 1890 by the Rev. Samuel Theodore issued here but not paid. East Winch & Watlington are Leupolt M.A. of Caius College, Cambridge, who resides at the nearest money order & telegraph offices Tottenhill. Here is a Primitive Methodist chapel, erected Wall Box, near the school, cleared at 5·35 p.m. ; sundays in 1862, which has a Sunday school attached. The fuel at ro.so a.tn allotment of 21 acres produces £28 xss. yearly. The re National School (mixed), for the parishes of Wormegay & mains of a very ancient cross have been replaced on the Tottenhill, erected in 1839, for r6o children; average village green by Mr. William Gilson Hoff. There was att.endance, 120; Miss Eliza Warden, mistress anciently a priory here, founded in the time of Henry Il. Carriers to Lynn.-Watkins, tues. & sat. & Thurston, by Reginald de Warrenne, of Castle Acre, for monks of the tues. & fri Beaman Harris Hulme, Setch bridge Gamble John, Crown P.II. & carpenter Hunter James, farmer, Gills Hall farm Burtt Rev . .Hichard Martin (curate), & assistant overseer & clerk to the Mellows Matthew, farmer The Manor house parish council Neal Hammond, parish clerk & boot ma. Henslowe Miss, Wcstbriggs lodge Gol'e Jasper, farmer Nurse David, farmer Hoff Williarn Gilson, Bridge house : llall Richard, farm bailiff to William Short Thomas, shopkeeper & farmer .Seppings J ames, Wormegay grange Billing J ackson of St. Peters, Priory la Smith Thomas, farmer Seppings Mrs. \Vormegay grange Hearn Edward, beer retailer Spencer Ju. brewers' travllr. Letch brdg 1 COMl'tiERCIAL. Hewer Brothers, farmers, Park farm Thurston James, beer retailer, farmer Bennett John, cattle dealer Hoff Henry, farmer & landowner; & caFrier .Bussens John William, registrar of residence, at Shouldbam Thorpe Tranter Charles Dryland, cigar mer- births & deaths & relieving officer for· Hogge (George) & Seppings, chant, Setch bridge Wiggeuhall sub-district brewers, maltsters&spirit merchants, Watki.z1s Wm. grocer & carrier, Post off Bray Henry, farmer, Bridge farm Setch Bridge brewery; & at King Youngs Charles,- farmer Fish William, Red Lion P.H street, Lynn (tues. only) ; & at Stoke Yom1gs John, farm bailiff to William FranklinGeo.(ofWatliugton),blacksmith. Ferry Boon esq. of Tottcnhill, Priory farm WORSTEAD (anciently called Worstcde) is a parish and Samuel Chapman, of Norwich. There is also a Primitive town, pleasantly situated on gradually rising ground near a Methodist chapel. A small charity is distributed weekly to <Stream, with a station on the North Walsham branch of the 25 poor parishioners, each receiving one loaf of bread. The Great Eastern railway, 8 miles north-east from Aylsham late Rev. Henry Wharton left the rent of 22 acres of land in and 3 south-by-east from North Walsbam, in the Eastern Shotesham for tbe repair of the church. This parish, in division of the county, Tunstead and Rapping petty sessional remote times, was a manufacturing and important market division, Tunstead hundred, Smallburgh union, North Wal town and the original seat of the manufacture of worsted Bham county court district, rural deanery of ~7 axham, stuffs, to which it gives its name, but this industry is now Tunstead division, and archdeaconry and diocese of Norwich. confined to Norwich and neighbourhood. A fair is annually The 'church of St. Mary is a building of freestone and flint held on the 12th and 13th of May, for catt'e. In tbe reign ill the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south of Ed ward the Confessor the lordship belonged, as the gift porch and an embattled western tower with four pinnacles, of King Cnut, to t!Je .Abbey of St. Bene't-of-Holme, near containing a clock and 6 bells : the font is hexagonal, each Horning : the manor was then held of the abbot by Robert, face being finely sculptured: the organ was erected in 1879 an officer, whose son, Odo, assumed the name of De at. a cost of £250 : there were originally nine chapels, two Worstede or Worsted. On the dissolution of the abbey, 27 of which were dedicated respectively to the Virgin and St. Hen. VIII. (1535-6), the manor belonging to it, with the John the Baptist; and of the!'e the former was restored by rectory and the patronl-lge of the vicarage, were granted to the late vicar in 1878, in memory of his father: two re the Dean and Chapter of Norwich, by whom it is at present markable double screens divide the chapels from the aisles : held. Worstead House, the seat of Lieut.-Col. Wllliam the chancel was thoroughly restored in 1891 1 and the John Rous, is a fine mansion of red brick, standing in a i!hurch affords soo sittings. Tbe register dates from the noble park of about 300 acres, which contains a lake cm·er year 1558. The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent iug 8! acres. The Dean and Chapter of Xorwich are lords charge £2o2, net yearly value £268, with four acres of of the chief manor, but the parish includes not less than 20 glebe and residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of manors, principally belonging to the Dean and Chapter of Norwich, and held since 1895 by the Rev. Thomas Leonard Norwich and Lieut.-Col. Rous. Mrs. Lubbock, of Catfield Jenkins 1\I.A. of Hertford College, Oxford. The Baptist Hall, Great Yarmouth, Lieut.-Col. Rous, Mrs. Petre, of chapel, on l\leeting House hill, was erected in '1829 in Westwick House, Norwich, and Henry Morse Taylor esq.J.P. place of an older building; in 1886 it was reseated of the Rookery, Dilhanl, are the principal landown&s.. The at a cost of about £3oo, and will now seat 500 persons: soil is mixed; subsoil, sand ami gravel. Tbe ()1\ief crops connected with this chapel is a burial ground, parsonage are wheat, oats and barley. The area is 21603 aores; rate~ .and schoolhouse, as well as almshouses for twelve poor able value, £4,356 ; the population ill l89t Wfl.S 819. · members of the congregation, built and endowed by Mr. LYuga te, three•qllurLen of llo UlllU north-east, Bengate. .