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Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, No. I district, HE:XSTE.-I.D REGISTRATION DISTRICT. John Herbert Stacy L.R.C.P. & S.Edin. 38 St. Gile» Superintendent Registrar, Frederick William Lansdell, street, ; No. 2 district, Laurence Hitchin ; deputy, Arthur _\nthony Brown, Barfoot Mills M.B., Ch.B.Edin. 43 All Saints' green, Swainsthorpe Norwich; No. 3 district, George Edward Deacon Registrars of Births & Deaths, Henstead sub-district, M.R.C.S.Eng. ; No. 4 district, George James South, ; deputy, Mrs. J. Lowe M.D., C.M.St.And. ; No. 5 dis­ South, Framingham Pigot; Humbleyard sub-district, trict, Hugh Robert Webb-Ware M.A.Oxon., M.R.C.S. H. R. Mutimer, Swainsthorpe Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. Saxlingham Nethergate Registrar of Marriages, H. R. Mutimer. Swainsthorpe; The Workhouse of the Henstead Union, in this parish, dPpu ty, Sidney Frederick Lansdell erected in 1836, is a spacious edifice of brick, standing in an enclosure of 4 acres of land. It is situated on the 1uam road leading from the railway station to Mulba.rton, & is capable ·of holding 250 inmates; Pnhlic Elementary School (mixed), erected in I874 & Frederick William Lansdell, master; Mrs . .A. Lansdell, since enlarged, for about 88 children; average attend­ matron; Rev. E. C. Hethering-ton M. A. chaplain; ance, 48 ; :Miss Emily Claxton, mistress Bugh Robert Webb-Ware M.A.Oxon., M.R.C.S.Eng., Railway Station, Waiter Philip Gunton, station master L.R.C.P.Lond. medical officer Cross Misses, The Rookery Bro-wn Arthur Anthony, blacksmith 1 Moy Thomas Ltd. coal & coke mers Dr ke-Brockman Rev. Edward Drake & deputy supt. registrar of Hen- Mutimer George Henry, farmer, ( urate in charge of Swainsthorpe stead union Swainsthorpe hall & Dunston farms Dunston) Hill James Wm. farmer,Church farm ~utimer Herbert Ray, surveyor of Gr nt Richard, Violet bank Lacey & Lincoln Ltd. brick makers highways & assistant overseer for M timer George H. The Hall (brickyard) Swainsthorpe & Dunston & regis- M timer Mrs. The Rallies Lansdell Frederick William, supt trar of births, deaths & marriages COMMERCIAL. registrar of Henstead union & for Humbleyard sub-district Andrews Thomas James, shopkeeper, master of the workhouse Mutimer Herbert William, farmer, & post office Lansdell Sidney Frederick, deputy The Limes & Rookery farm Baxter Frederick, pig dealer registrar of births, deaths & mar- Punchard George, coal dealer Branford Richard, Dun Cow P .H riages for Humbleyard sub-district SIWANNINGTON is a parish and village, 3 miles tains many beautiful sprcimens of ancient oak carving south from Cawston station on the East Norfolk branch and several stained windows: the carved oak includes o• the Great Eastern railway, r mile north from Attle- an elaborately wrought chimney piece which formerly bridge station on the Midland and Great Northern joint adorned the house of William &ger11 esq. mayor of East Dereham and 10 north-west from Norwich, in the Norwich in r543 and 1548 and M.P. for Norwich in 1541; Northern division of the cvunty, Eynsford hundred and it bears several shields, on one of which appears his mer­ petty sessional division, St. Faith's union, Aylsham chant's mark, impaling the arms of the Grocers' Corn­ county court district,_ rural deanery of Sparham and arch- pany; others fiisplay the arms of the Mercers' Company, railway, 7 south-west from Aylsham, 12 north-east from and the Merchant Adventurers and those of the Steward deaconry and . The church of St. family; there are also boldly carved figures of warriors, Margaret is a building of flint with stone dressings, in mounted and on foot. Frank Norgate esq., who is lord the Early English and later styles, consisting of chancel, of the man·Jr, Magdalen College, Oxford, Innes Watson nave, aisles, south porch and an !Jmbattled western esq. M.A., J.P. Mr. Anthony Hunting and Philip Norgate tow~r containing 3 bells: there are I9I sittings. The esq. are the principal landowners. Hingrave and Upgate l'egister dates from the year 1538. The living is a are hamlets in the parish. The soil is sand and loam; rectory, net income £290, with 13 acres of glebe and subsoil, clay and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, residence, in the gift of the Master and Fellows of roots, barley and hay. The area, including common, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and held since 1892 by the Rev. i1 1,455 acres; rateable value, £r,305; the population in George Barnes Atkinson M.A. of that Hall. Here is a 19II was ::l22. Primitive Methodist chapel. The charities amount to Parish Sexton, Frank Alien. {.13 yearly. Robert Ket, a tanner, of Wymondham, who Post & 'l'elegraph Office, Alderford Bridge.-Mrs. Mary raised an insurrection in I549• in the reign of Edward VI. Ann Munford, sub-postmistress. Letters through Rgainst the inclosure of commons and parks and the Norwich ; delivery commences at 7 a.m. & 3.30 p.m. ; exactions of the nobility and gentry, was taken prisoner dispatched 6 a.m. & 4·55 p.m. daily;. sundays, 4·55 i.n this parish, after the defeat of his folhtwers in August p.m. Great Witchingham is the nearest money or,der of that year, by the Earl of Warwick, and subsequently office, 2 miles distant banged, with his brother, in Nov. or Dec. at Norwich Wall Letter Box, near the Rectory, cleared at 6.I5 a.m. Castle. Swannington Hall, the property of Frank Nor- & 5· ro p.m. ; sundays, 11.10 a.m gate esq. is now occGpied by Ernest E. Higginson esq. Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in I864, for Swannington Court, the seat of Innes Watson esq. go children; average attendance, 7~; Mrs. Louisa N".A., J.P. is a picturesque Tudor mansion and con- Marriott, mistress Atkinson Rev. George Barnes M.A. Bayfield Henry, coachman to Innes Higginson Ernest E.farmer & breeder Rectory Watson esq. ~I.A., J.P of thoroughbred horses Higginson Ernest E.Swannington hall Black Horse P.H. (Home Counties Lovick John Wright, farmer Norgate Philip, Heath house Public House Trust Ltd.; Waiter Medler Horace, farmer, Church farm Watson Innes M.A., J.P. Swanning- Cooper, manager) Mumford & Son, cartage contractors ton court Bunting Anthony, farmer,Upgate frm Smith Nehemiah, shoe maker & COMMERCIAL. J<'uller George, farmer assistant overseer All en John, carpenter j Futter John, head gardener to Innes . To mm as Thomas, bricklayer Allen Thomas William, farmer Watson esq. M.A., J.P i Wilkinson Frank, blacksmith

SWANTON A:B:BOT is a parish on the road from 1 of land to the poor; and also sa. 24p. of land, the Norwich to North Walsham, zi miles west from Worstead rent to be applied in repairing the chancel of the station on the Cromer branch of the Great Eastern rail- church. Twenty-five acres of common land were allotted way, II north-by-east from Norwich and 3 south-south- to the poor for fuel, another portion of allotted land west from North Walsham, in the Eastern division of the is now let and the rent appropriated to the purchase county, South Erping-ham hundred and petty sessional of coals f?r the poor. S_wan~on Hall, a mansion division, Aylsham union and county court district, rural pleasantly Situa~d and standmg m well-wooded grounds. deanery of Ingworth (south division), and archdeaconry IS the seat of M1ss Jex-Blake. The Rev. C?arles Camp­ and diocese of Norwich. The church of St. l\Iichael ton Lanchester M.~. of West Pottergate, IS lord of the situated on an eminence, is an ancient building of flint: manor. The urincipal I_andowners are Miss Jex-Blake, in the Early Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave. of ·Sca~tow Hall, and _Lieut.-Col. ~e~nard_ J. Petre, ?f south porch and western tower containing one hell: therP WestwlCk, near Norw1ch. The s01l IS mrxed; snbsml, i!'l a memorial brass in good preservation to Stephen de gravel and clay. _The chief crops are wheat, oats and Multon, ob. 1477: the church affords 225 sittings. The barley. The area IS I,r6o acres of l~nd ~nd 14 of water; register dates from the year 1538. The living is a rec- rateable value, £r,583; the population m I9II was 475· tory, net yearly value £173, including 10 acres of glebe Sexton, Alfred Clampen. and residence, erected in I865, in the gift of Miss Post, & M. 0. Office.-Edward HDward, sub-postmaster. Jex-Blake, of Swanton Hall, and held since 1884 by Letters received through Korwich at 6 a.m. & 5.15 the Rev. Edward Edwards Montford M.A.. of Corpus p.m.; dispatched at 4.40 a.m. & 4.15 p.m.; sundays, Christi College, Cambridge. Here are Wesleyan and arrive 7 a.m.; dispatched 4-I5 p.m. Worstead, 2~ Wesleyan Reform chapels. Ann ,stew:nd left a pightle miles distant, is the nearest telegraph office