60 BLIGKLING. NORFOLK. [KELLY'S
and sta.bles, is .by a. bridge of two arches crossing 1 remains of John, Earl of Buckinghamshire, and his two a moat, and on each side of the bridge, upon a wives, Mary .Anne (Drury) and Caroline (Conolly); in the pedestal, is the figure of a bull, the Hobart crest, park is a fine piece of water, in the form of a crescent, 11upporting a. shield of the arms of the family : the general extending about a mile in length and 400 yards at its aspect of t'he Hall, with its turrets, curiously formed greatest breadth: the plea.Aylsham forms a. principal feature. On -manuscripts; and in the house are numerous family por- the estate is kept a small herd of original English wild traits and various ancient and modern pictures of con- cattle, white with black ears. The Marquess of Biderable value, including two portraits, by Gainsborough, Lothian is lord of the manor and sole landowner. The and statues in oak of Queen .Anne Boleyn and Queen Eliza- soil is sand and gravel ; subsoil, gravel. The chief beth: some magnificent specimens of ancient tapestry crops are wheat, roots, barley and hay. The area is adorn the walls of the various rooms, one of which, repre- 2,126 acres; rateable value, £1,994; the population in senting Peter the Great o.f Russia on horseback, was I9II was 297. presented to John, 2nd Earl of Buckinghamshire, by the Parish Clerk .Albert Poll. Empress Catherine of Russia, upon t·he occasion of his ' mission as ambassador to the Russian Court: the park and Letter Box cleared at 9· ID a.m. & 5· IO p.m gardens, surrounding three sides of the Hall, comprise Letters through .Aylsham delivered about 7 a.m. & 3·30 about 6oo acres; the park is well stocked with deer, and p.m. .Aylsham is the nearest money order & tele- is nearly divided by a wood of old forest trees, consisting graph office, about 2 miles distant of about IBo acres: the oonduit and statues, which Public Elementary School (mixed), built, with teacher's formerly adorned the platform of the gardens at Oxnead house, in I868, at the cost of the late William, 8th Hall., are preserved here: and there is also a pyramidal Marquess of Lmrd, gamekeeper to M. Parr Rev. William Riddell M . .A. Edwards Jas. Nelson, farmr. Mill frm Falcon esq (rector), Rectory Golf Club (Rev. W. R. Parr, The Kiddle Eliza (Mrs.), farmer,Moorgate Savill-Onley Major Frederick Savill, Rectory, hon. sec) Oclee Herbert George, head gardener Blickling lodge Goulder John Lee, farmer, Park farm to the Marquis of Lothian Wallace The Misses, Blickling hall Horner Frederick, blacbmith Poll .Albert, carpenter, Silvergate BLOFIET.D is a. parish on the road from Norwich to & 4·45 p.m. Blofield, 2 miles distant, is the nearest Yarmouth, the head of a union, It miles from Brundall money order & telegraph office t1tation on the Norwich and Yarmouth section of the Great Wail Letter Boxes, near Church, cleared at 12.40, 4·5 & Eastern railway, 7 miles east from Norwich and II9~ from 8.45 p.m.; no sunday collection; Callow green, cleared London, in the Blofield and Walsha.m petty sessional divi- at 6.20 a.m. & S·S p.m. ; no sunday collection; & near t1i.on, Blofield hundred, Norwich county court district, Blofield hall, cleared at 3·35 p.m. ; no sunday collec- rnral deanery of Blofield, archdeaconry and diocese of Nor- tion wich. The church of St . .Andrew is a fine building of flint, with stone dressin.gs, in the Gothic style of the rsth OOUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR BLOFIELD & WA.L century, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, north porch SHA.M PETTY SESSIONAL DIVISION. and a. lofty embattled western tower, with four statues as Gilbert Lieut.-Col. Herbert Henry, Branksome, Lowes. pinnacles, and containing 6 bells: there are several monu toft, chairman ments, including one of marble, with small kneeling A.stley Major Delaval Graham L'Estrange, Plumstead figures, to a. member of the Paston family, attached to hall, Norwic~ the Court of HBnry VIII. : the octagonal stone font, a Burroughes Hy. Randall esq. Burlingham hall, Norwich work apparently of great antiquity, is adorned with sculp Cator John esq. Woodbastwick hall, Norwich tures, representing scenes in the life of Our Saviour, but Cubitt Maj. Frank .Astley, The Hall, Thorpe St. A.ndrew, 1s much defaced: the church was restored in r 878, and Norwich again in 1908, at a cost of £r,o2o: there are 400 Fellowes Charles .Arthur esq. Ranger's lodge, Charl J!ittings, 300 being free. The register dates from the bury, Oxon year I545· The living is a rectory, net yearly value Barker William esq. The Hall, Blofield, Norwich . £6oo, including 59 acres of glebe, with residence, in Harvev• Lieut.-Ool. John Robert D.S.O. Holmwood, the gift of Caius College, Cambridge, and held since Thorpe St. A.ndrew, Norwich 1912 by the Rev. .Arthur Stuart Duncan J ones M . .A. Jary Maj. Robt.Herbrt.Heath, South Walsham, Norwich (fellow) of that college. Here is a Mission Hall, and at Slipper Thomas esq. Braydeston hall, near Norwich the Heath a Primitive Methodist chapel. The reading Stedman James Hy. esq. The Hall, Gt. Plumstead,Norwcb and parish room was presented to the parish in 1897 by Sutton Benj am in Charles esq. Freethorpe, Norwich Philip Steward esq. in commemoration of the Diamond Tuck George Hustler esq. 38 Bracondale, Norwich Jubilee of Queen Victoria. The Rev. Mr. Reeve, Waters Henry James esq. A.mbleside, Thorpe rd.Norwich a former rector of this parish, gave a house, situated Wright William esq. Upton hall, Norwich near the church, and £ro a year, to be paid to a The chairman, for the time being, of the Blo-field Rural schoolmaster; he also gave three different benefactions, District Council is an ex-officio magistrate amounting to £6 7s. to be paid yearly in bread and Clerk to the Magistrate~;~, John Empson Toplis Pollard, clothing to poor widows belonging to this parish. These 17 Prince of Wales road, Norwich charities are now administered under a new scheme The foH.owing parishes are included in the Petty Sessional framed by the Charity Commissioners. The charities division :-.Acle, Beighton, Blofield, Brundall, Bucken· for distribution amount to £4o yearly, and there i!! ham, Burl.ingham St. A.ndrew, Burlingham St.Edmund, also a fuel allotment of 37 acres let in portiom of Burlingham St. Peter, Cantley, Freetho:rpe, Halvergate, one acre each, under the "Allotment E-xtension Hassingham, Hemblington, Limpenhoe, Lingwood, Act," at £1 7s. per acre. Blofield house is the resi Moulton, Plumstead Great, Plumstead Little, Post dence of Robin M. Chamberlin esq. Henry Randall wick, Ranworth-with-Panxworth. Reooha.m, Southwood, Burroughes esq. of Burlingham Hall, who is lord of Strumpshaw, Thorpe St . .Andrew, Tunstall, Upton-with the manor, William Rarker esq. J.P. of Blofield Hall Fishley, Walsham South St. Ma:ry, Walsham South St. and Major Robert Herbert Heath Jary, of Bitteswell Lawrence, Wickhampton, Witton & Woodbastwick Hall, Leicestershire, are the principal landowners. The Petty Sessions are held at the Court house every alter soil is good mixed ; subsoil, brick-earth, clay and sand. nate monday at ro a.m The chief crops are the usual cereals and roots. The area is 2,321 acres; rateable value, £5,n6; the popu BLOFIELD RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL. lation in I9II WaS I, 105. Meets at Board Room, Lingwood, fortnightly. Sexton, Randall Ward. Chairman, Major Frank A.stley Cubitt, Th{}rpe Hall,Nrwch Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Mrs. Martha Tuck, sub-post- Clerk, Herbert Henchman Cole, 12 Bank street, Norwich mistress. Letters received from Norwich at 5 a.m. & Treasurer, Henry Birkbeck, Norwich 2.20 & 6.15 p.m.; dispatched at 12.30 a.m. & 5·35 & Medical Officer of Health, Herbert Hatfield Back M.B. 8.30 p.m Lond. A.cle, Norwich Post Office, Blofield Corner. John Farman Rix, sub- Surveyor, J. C. Waters, .Acle, Norwich postmaster. Letters through Norwich, via Blofield, Sanitary Inspector, Claude King, 20 Castle meadow, arrive at 7 a.m. & 4.50 p.m.; dispatched at 6.40 a.m. . Norwich
