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DIRECTORY J NORFOLK. RO(;KLAXD ST. PETER. 425 Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-George M. Alien, sub-post & Wilby. The population of the union in 191 I was master. Letters through Attleborough arrive at 6 14•4-27; area, 68,774 acres; rateable value at Lady a.m. & ~ p.m.; dispatched at 9·45 a.m. & 8.35 p.m.; Day, 1912, [82,073- sundays, 8.35 p.m Chairman, W. J. Eagling, Little Ellingham, Attleboro' Letter Boxes, Fen street, cleared week days at 7· 15 Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment Committee, Fredk.. p.m.; sundays, rr.ro a.m.; Kirk hall, cleared week Robinson, Watton days at 7.10 p.m.; sundays, 11.30 a.m Treasurer, Edward Gurney Buxton, Norwich The children attend the school at Rockland St. Peter's Collector to the Guardians, Art-hur A. Gompertz,Watton W.A.YLAND RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL. Relieving Officers, Attleborough district, Robert W. Manning, London road, Attleborough; Watton dis The parishes in the District are the same as in the trict, A. Stibbon, High street, Watton Union. Vaccination Officers, The Registrars of Births & Deaths Council meets at Board room, Rocklands. Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, Attleborough dis Chairman, Charles Hovell Colman, Rockland St. Peter, trict, George Sydney Keeling M.D. The Pines, Con Attleborough naught road, Attleborough; Buckenham district, Officials. Wilfred Howard L.RC.P.Edin. New Buckenham; Clerk, Frederick Robinson, Watton Hockham district, Waiter Edward Cooper M.R.C.S. Treasurer, Edward Gurney Buxton, Norwich Eng., L.RC.P.Lond. East Harling; Kenninghall dis Medical Officer of Health, Edmd.Fredk.Rose L.S.A.Lond trict, William David Adams M.A., M.B., C.M. The Sanitary Inspector, Arthur Sayer, Rockland St. Peter Cedars. Kenninghall; Watton district, Henry Mallins M.B., M.Ch. Watton WAYLAND UNION. The Workhouse, at Rockland All Saints, is a structure of Board day, every alternate monday at 10 a.m. at th8 union brick, available for 299 inmates; Rev. James Atkinson On April rst, 1902, the union of Guiltcross was abolished, .Bulman Fleming B.A. chaplain; George Sydney & the parishes of Banham, Buckenham (Old)~ Bucken Keeling M.D. medical officer; Henry Frederick Gotts, ham (New), Eccles, Kenninghall, Quidenham & Wilby master; Mrs. Gertrude Gotts, matron added to Wayland union The Union comprises the following places :-Attleborougb, WAYLA"SD REGISTRATION DISTRICT. Banham, Besthorpe, Breccles, Buckenham (New), Superintendent Registrar, Frederick Robinson, Watton; Buckenham (Old), Ca.rbrooke, Caston, Eccl'es, Ellingham deputy, Charles Hobinson, Watton (Great), Ellingham (Little), Griston, Hargham, Hock Registrars of Births, Deaths & Marriages, Attleborough ham, Illington, Kenninghall, Larling, Merton, Oving sub-district, Robert W. Manning, London road, Attle ton, Quidenham, Rockland All Saints & St. Andrew, borough; Watton sub-district, Arthur Sayer, Rockland Rockland St. Peter, Roudham, Scoulton, Shropham, St. Peter; deputy, Henry Frederick Gotts, Rockland Snetterton, Stow Bedon, Thompson, Tottington, Watton All Saints PlHVATF: RJ<:SIDENTS. / Cator Joseph, f.a.rmer Lain Wm. carpenter & wheelwright Benjafield William Barnett M.B. (re- Doubleday George (Mrs.), farmer Langley Arth.J sph. Jolly Dealers P.H tired), Bletchenden Downes George James, farmer Leech Anna (Miss), farmer Thorns Rev. Harry Harcourt M.A. Feeke Oscar William,White Hart P.H Lincoln William T. H. miller (wind) (rector), R~ctory Gathergood Arthur .Stemp, farmer List er Sarah Mrs.), farmer Gladden John M. farmer, Pound farm Lister William Goorge, farmer COMMERCIAL. Gotts Henry l''rederick, master of Lock Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer Alien George :M. tailor, Post office Wayland Union Wurkhouse & deputy Mann J·ohn &bert, farmer, Kirk hall Alien Mary Ann (Mrs.), currier registrar of births, deaths & mar Prockter Sidney Edwd. grocer & drpr Alien Robert E. ironmonger riages for Watton sub-district Rayner Robert, basket maker Alien Wilfred, farmer Gray Charles, head gamekeeper toW. Smith John, blacksmith Baker Robert, farmer B. Benjafield esq. M.B Upston Archie, gravel merchant Bowles Harry Augustus, farmer Howes Thomas, baker Webster Florence (Mrs.), farmer ROCKLAND ST. MARY is a parish ~:md so.:att.t'n~.l in 1909, seats about roo. In Rockland Broad all the village, pleasantly situated, 5 miles south-east from parishioners have a joint right of fishing, the fish Trowse station on the Ipswich and Norwich section of caught being exclusively for their own use and not for the Great Eastern railway and ti south-east from Norwich, sale. The fuel allotment of 8 acres produces £ r6 yearly. in the Southern division of the county, Swainsthorpe Here are brick fields and market gardens. "The Old petty s~ssional division, Henstead hundred and union, Hall is the property of Robert Thomas Edwin Gilbert Norwich county court district, rural deanery of Brooke esq. of Ashby Hall. Sir Charles Henry Stuart Rich (west-ern division), archdeaconry of N1nfolk and diocese hart. of Devizes Ca~tle, Wilts, is lord of the chief of Normch. The ivy-covered ruins of the church of &ck manor, and R. T. E. Gilbert esq. is the ehief land land St. Mugaret's, or Little Rockland, stand a few feet owner. The soil is mixed; subsoil, brick earth. The cast of the existing church in the same churchyard. The chief crops are whea.t, barley anrl roots. The area is church of St. Mary, standing on a height, is a small but 1,302 acres of Iand, 59 acres of water and 5 of tidal ancient building of flint, in the Gothic style, consisting water; rateable value, £r,8I5; the population in 19II of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western was 402. tower containing 3 bells : the nave was formerly thatched, Parish Clerk, Samuel Ward. but the church was restored in 1892 at a. cost of over £soo, the nave being new-roofed with tiles, new stone Post Office.-Mrs. Hannah Beeton, sub-postmistress. windows added, and the interior re-seated, principally at Letters arrive from Norwich, through Thurton, at the expense of the late John Hotblack esq. of Norwich: 6.5·5 a.m. & 3.10 p.m.; dispatched at n noon & 3.15 the south porch was also added at the cost of John Hot- p.m. The nearest money order offices are at Brundall black, jun. esq. to the memory of his wife. The register & Trowse, 5 miles distant, & Bramerton, about r! dates from 1 656. and for the first fifty years is written in miles distant, is the nearest telegraph office Latin. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £ 2 85, Public Elementary School, rebuilt in r887, for 105 chil including 32 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of dren; average attendan{;e, IIB; John Osborne, master John T. Hotblack esq. and held since 1908 by the Rev. Carriers pas11 through thrice weekly J ame11 Kemble .Swinburne ·B.A. of .Pembroke College, A service of motor omnibuses from Victoria station, Cambridge, who is also rector of Hellington. Here is Norwich, to Loddon,_ calls at Hellington Corner, about a Primitive Methodist chapel. The parish hall, erected a mile distant Swinburne Rev. James Kemble B..A. Dnrrant Charles, market gardener 'Pigney Samuel, market gardener (rector), Rectory George Edgar, travelling draper &wland William, Star P.H Gibbs Jas. Geo. farmer, & New inn Rudd George, market gardener COMMERCLU. Herring Eliza (Mrs.), f.a.rmer Rudram Christopher, market gardnr Blake Isaac, market gardener Hollidge Waiter, corn dealer Rudram William, market gardener Blake Waiter, bricklayer Jordan John, saddler Wright Robert C. florist Carr Fred-erick, market gardener Lacy & Lincoln, brick & tile makers Yallop Ernest, market gardener Carr Frederick, jun. market gardener Mack John Hayward. farmer Yallop Mark, market gardener Cooke Hy. Walker, frmr.Old Hall fm Norman Rebecca. (Miss), shopkeeper Young Herbt. Ephraim, market gdnr Diggins Frederick, market gardener Parker Robert James, carpenter ROCKLAND BT. PETER is a parish and village, 4~ ing the church and 200 acres, which are in the Shrop miles west-by-north from Attleborough station on the ham hundred), Wayland union, Attleborough county 'l'hetford and Norwich 11ection of the Great Eastern rail- court district, rural deanery of Rockland (north divi way, in the South Western division of the county, W'!l.y- sion), archdeaconry of Norfolk and diocese of Norwich. hnd petty sessional div:sion, Wayland hundred (except- The church of St. Peter is a small but ancient strueture .