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HINDRINGHAM is a straggling village and large and a Primitive Methodist chapel. The charities amount parish, about 4 miles east from station on the to about £94 yearly. Hall, the property of Dereham and Wells section of the Great Eastern rail­ Edmund Plane Middleton esq. J.P. is an ancient moated way, 7 south-east from Wells and 7 north-east from mansion, now occupied by Mr. John Dixon, farmer. The , in the Northern division of the county, Dean and Chapter of , who are lords of the manor, North Greenhoe hundred and petty sessional division, Wal­ Edward Bowyei' Sparke M.A., D,L., J.P. of Gunthorpe Hall, singham union and county court district, rural deanery of Wi!liam George Waters M. A., J. P. of Mansfield street, Port­ Walsingham, archdeaconry and . The land place, w, Richard esq. of , church of St. ,Martin is an ancient building in the Perpen­ Joseph Stonehewer Scott-Chad esq. )LA., J.P. of Pinkney dicular style, consisting of chancel, nave with clerestory, Hall, , and Captain William George England R.N. aisles, south porch, and a lofty embattled western tower are the principal landowners. The soil is heavy loam; sub­ containing 5 bells: in the chancel is a memorial window to soil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The Richard England, Capt. 12th (East Suffolk) Regt. killed at area is 3,313 acres; rateable value, £4,742; the population the massacre of Waiaru, New Zealand, June 17, 1843, and in 1891 was 6or. · to his father, mother, and only sister : the window was Parish Clerk, Samuel Sands. erected by his brother, the late William England M.D. of Ipswich, in 1862: at the east end of the south aisle is a piscina PosT 0FFICE.-William Mayers, receiver. Letters received and a hagioscope; in 1870 the chancel was rebuilt and the from Walsingham (Railway Sub Office) at 8.15 a.m. ; church partially restored, and it now affords 400 sittings. dispatched at 4.15 p.m.; sundays arrive at 8.15 a.m. ; The register dates from the year 166o. The living is a dispatched at 10 a. m. The nearest money order & tele­ vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £-244, net yearly value graph bffice is at Walsingham. Postal orders are issued [220, including 23 acres of glebe, with residence, in the here, but not _paid gift of the Dean and Chapter of Norwich, and held since National School (mixed); built in 1845, for 120 children; 1877 by the Rev. Thomas Edward Platten ~r.A. of Lincoln average attendance, 8~ ; Miss Susanna Frances Beane, College, Oxford. There is a Wesleyan chapel, built in r845, mistress Frankling Robert Smith Dixon Abel, farmer Mallett Robert, Folgate P.R Overman The :Misses Dixon John, farmer, Bindringham hall Mann W1lliam, boot repairer Platten Rev. Thomas Edward M. A. England Richard, farmer; & at Binham Mayers William, butcher, Post office Vicarage Flood William (Mrs.), farmer Pretty -, farm bailiff to James Coker Francis John, wheelwright esq. of Beetley COMMERCIAL. Frankland Robert, hawker Roll James, farm bailiff to Richard Balls Edward, shopkeeper & baker Golding John, farmer England esq. of Binbam Beane Abel Benjamin, farmer Hall James, general merchant Russell William, farmer Bell Thomas, grocer & draper Hawes Frederick Twigg, shopkeeper Sands Robert, miller (wind) & farmer Chestney Thomas, bricklayer Ha wes Thos. beer retailer & wheelwright ~ands Samuel, farmer Clarke Matthew, shoe maker Jan·is Stephen & Sons, blacksmiths Sands William, farmer Coker Jamcs, farmer, Field house; & Lake John William, Crown P.R Southgate Samuel, shopkeeper & farmr at Be.etley & Brisley Lake Thomas, blacksmith Wall Harry, baker Daplyn Harcourt, farmer Leach Samuel, farmer Wall Robert, miller (wind) Daplyn Henry, fanner Loads John Thomas, Red Lion P.R Woodrow George, Duke P.R Daplyn Maria (Mrs.), shopkeeper Mackey Alice (Mrs.), farmer HINGHAM is a small market town and parish on the the church, and being prosecuted in consequence by Bishop road from Norwich to Brandon, 3 miles south-west from Wren (r635-8) he fled the kingdom, and went over to New Kimberley and Hardingham stations on the Wymondham England with many of his parishioners, who sold their and Dereham section of the Great Eastern railway, about estates, and formed in New England a town and colony of n6 from London and 6 west from Wymondham, in the the name of Hingham, where many of their posterity still Mid division of the county, Forehoe hundred, petty ses- remain : Mr. Peck, after ten years' voluntary banishment, sional division and union, Wymondham county court dis- returned here in r646 and resumed his rectory, and died in trict, rural deanery of Hingham, Forehoe division, arch- the year 1656. The Congregational chapel, erected in 1836, deaconry of Norfolk and diocese of Norwich. The town is is an edifice of red brick and will seat 450, and there is a lighted with gas by a company formed in 1871. The Primitive Methodist chapel seating roo. Fairland Hall is a church of St. Andrew, a noble edifice of flint stone, is a fine building erected in r883 by and belonging to Mr. Henry specimen of the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, lofty Kitteringham ; it is used for concerts and entertainments, nave of six bays, aisles, south porch, vestry on the north and will seat about r6o FJersons. A Mutual Improvement side, and a massive western tower containing a clock and 8 Society meets at the old National school once a fortnight bells re-hung in 189r at a cost of £8o: in the chancel is a during the winter months. The Loyal Wodebouse Lodge stained window presented in 1814 by John, first Lord Wode- of Oddfellows of the Attleborough district, No. 3,66r, Man­ house, and there are various others, including one to the chcster Unity, meets here and has at present (1892) 306 Rev. Martin Baylie Darby, nearly fifty years rector of the members and a capital of £4,300. The "Robin Hood, the adjoining parish of IIackford, who resided at Ilingham, and Pride of Hingham " Lodge of the Ancient Order of Foresters, died March 15th, 188o; on the north side of the chancel is No. 3,415, also meets here and has about 148 members and a lofty and highly-wrought monument to Thomas 5th Baron a capital of £1,332. The market day is Tuesday, and the Morley, Marshal of Ireland, who died in 1435: some fine market, which is principally for pigs, is held at the "Cock" paintings of the murder of S. Thomas of Canterbury were inn, and the poultry market at the "Bell." Two fairs, re- • discovered in 1855 on the south wall of the chancel: in the established in 1885 after having been for some time in abey­ nave are two small and ancient brasses dated respectively ance, are held annually for cattle and pleasure on March 7th 1615 and 1622, but without any names : there are memorials and Oct. 2nd. The fuel allotment of 34 acres produces £45 to Matthew Amyas M. D. 1729: John Watson M.A. formerly yearly, which is distributed among the resident poor of the rector nf this parish and Scoulton, d. 1727, and to Elizabeth parish in coals; and charities producing [41 13s. nd. yearly his wife; a brass to Frederick Wodehouse, captain R.A. son are distributed in bread to the poor. Here is a large lake of the Hon. and Rev. William Wodehouse, rector here from or mere covering about 20 acres, and abounding in pike, 18n, who died at St. George's Fort, Bermuda, 25 Sept. roach, perch and other fish. Hingham Hall, the seat of 1853, and various inscribed tablets: in 1872 the church was Rawdon Hunter-Muskett esq. D.L., J.P. is a large mansion new-roofed, re-seated and restored at a cost of about £3,300, of brick standing in a well-wooded demesne of about 50 and in 1874 the porch was restored as a memorial to the acres. The Earl of Kimberley is lord of the manor and Rev. Edward Gurdon, late rector, who died July 3rst, chief landowner. Hamilton Hawtrey Hurnard esq. is lord 1873: a new organ was added in r878 at a cost of £550: in of the manor of Hingham Gurneys. The soil is of a mixed the same year a massive brass lectern was given by Lady nature ; subsoil, clay and brick earth. The chief crops are Mary Currie, and carved oak stalls were erected in the chan- turnips, barley, wheat and mangolds. The parish consists eel: in r886 the vestry was restored at a cost of £r,ooo, of 3,6g8 acres; rateable value, £7,68o; the population in wholly defrayed by the Rev. Maynard Wodehouse Currie 1891 was 1,560. M.A. late rector, d. II May, 1887: the east end of the chan- Parish Clerk John Sare eel was raised and paved with marble mosaic work in r88o ' · . and 1882: there are r,o2o sittings. The register dates from PosT, M. 0. & T. ~- & S. B.-Robert Kmgaby, receiver the year 1601. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent- Letters ~re recmved from Attleborough at 5.15 a. m. & 5 charge £950, net yearly value £750, with 25! acres of glebe P·III:·; dispatched ~t 3 & 8.r5 p.m. Box closes at 8 p.m. and residence, in the gift of the Earl of Kimberley, and held Savmgs bank busmess transacted from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. since r887 by the Rev. Arthur Chas. Wodehouse Upcher M.A. & money order 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; sat. 9 a. m. to 8 p.m of Trinity College, Cambridge. Robert Peck M.A. a former Police Station, Hall Moor, Sergeant William Sewter, in rector, levelled the altar and the whole chancel a foot below charge C. N. & s.