160 EAST HARLING. . [ Kl<:LLY'S

EAST HARLING (or Market Harling) is a parish and to an Improvement fund: under an order of the Inclosure small market town, situated on an acclivity above the river Commissioners, £28, the rent of 56 acres of fen land, is laid Thet, with a station called "Harling Road" on the out in fuel for the poor. Old Harling Hall, a structure of and section of the Great Eastern railway, It miles brick, with an embattled tower, and built by Sir Thomas north-west from the village, and is 9 miles north-cast from Lovell kt. was pulled down at the beginning of the present Thetford and 104~ from London, in the Mid division of the century. Flint Hall is now ( 1896) unoccupied. The manors county, Guiltcross and petty sessional division, were granted by Henry VIL about 1485, to Sir Thomas Guiltcross hundred and union, county court Lovell, knighted 1487, and were some time afterwards held district, rural deanery of Rock land, archdeaconry of Nor­ by Gregory Lovell, and on his death by his half-brother, folk and . The church of SS. Peter and John Lovell: the property subsequently passed to Charles Paul, standing on a slight elevation close to the high road, Wright esq. and thence descended to his grandson, who was at the western entrance to the town, was erected in the 15th lord of the manor and patron of the living in 1736, and the century (c. 1449 ), on the site of an earlier structure, by Sir Wright family or their representatives continued to have William Chamberlain kt. and completed by Sir Robert interests in this parish until about 1822. The water mill Wingfield kt. is a building of stone in the Perpendicular and adjacent lands belonged for several generations before style, consisting of chancel with north or Jesus and St_ Anne's 1820 to the family of Rodwell. Miss Buxton, of Shadwell chapels, nave, aisles, south porch and a lofty western tower Court, near Thetford, is lady of the manor. Lord Egerton with 12 pinnacles and an elegant spire and containing 6 of Tatton, Cecil Thomas Molyneux-Montgomerie esq. of bells : in St. Mary's or the Harling chapel, at the east end of Gissing Hall and Timothy Colman esq. are the chief land­ the south aisle, which still retains much of its elaborate owners. The soil is light loam ; subsoil, chalk. The chief carving and. ornamental work, was buried John de Herling, crops are wheat, barley and turnips. The area is 2,613 c. 1392: here also is an altar tomb, with recumbent marble acres ; rateable value, £3,I49; the population in 1891 was effigies, to Sir Robert Harling, slain in 1435, during the 1,036. French war, and subsequently interred here, and to his lady; Sexton, ·william Seeker. the tomb is adorned with figures of unicorns and pelicans : Post M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, S. B. & on the south side of the chapel is a stately altar tomb of Annuity & Insurance Office.-Mrs. Maria Barnard, sub­ variously coloured marbles, with recumbent effigies, to Sir postmistress. Letters by mail cart from Thctford arrive Thomas Lovell kt. ob. r6oo, and his wife, ob. r6o4, and round at 4·35 a_m. & 3.15 p.m.; delivery commences at 7 a.m. the whole an iron grating: in the chancel, under an arch & 3.30 p.m. ; dispatched at 2.35 & 8 p.m. There is one opening into St. Anne's chapel, is a wmb, surmounted by a delivery on sundays, commencing at 7 a.m. ; dispatched fine slab of Purbeck marble, once bearing effigies in brass, at 6.30 p.m to Sir William Chamberlain K.G. commander in France, ob. 1462, and Anne, daughter of the above Sir Rubert Harling, County Magistrates for Guiltcross & Shropham Petty his wife, but the brasses have long been missing ; she after­ Sessional Division. wards married Sir Robert Wingfield kt. and subsequently Nugent Sir Edmund Charles bart. D.L. The Hall, West became the third wife of Sir John Scrope, fifth Baron Harling, Thetford; & at 14 Lowdnes square, London Scrope, of Bolton : one side of the tomb displays the arms of S W, chairman Chamberlain; there are also other monuments, including a Albemarle Earl of P.C., K.U.M.G., D.L. park, number of coffin-shaped tombstones near the chancel door Thetford to members of the Rodw~ll family: the east window is filled Browne Rev. Edward Utten, Besthorpe vicarage, Attleboro' with ancient glass, previously removed hence w the old hall, Hemsworth Augustus Noel Campbell esq. Shropham hall, but replaced about 1700 by Charles Wright esq. :the church Thetford was restored and seated with open benches in :r878-79, and Keppel MajorWilliam George,OldBuckenham, Attleborough affords 450 sittings : the churchyard was enlarged and sur­ Montgomerie Cecil Thomas Molyneux- esq. D.L.Gissing hall, rounded by a wall in 1829. The register dates from the Diss year 1544. The living is a recwry, average tithe rent-charge Morris Sydney esq. hall, Thetford .£425, gross yearly value £433, net £363, with 68 acres of Nugent George Colborne esq. West Harling hall, Thetford glebe, in the gift of Mrs. Grigson H. Wigg, and held since Partridge Henry Thos. esq_ The Hall, , Thetford 1888 by the Rev. Baseley Hales Grigson B.A. of Corpus Clerk to the Magistrates, Arthur Tallent Clowes, :N"ew Christi college, . There is a Primitive Methodist Buckenham chapel, erected in r865 on the site of a former chapel, and Petty Sessions are held at the Police Station, East Harling, seating 200 persons, and the Society of Friends have a meet­ every seeond monday at 1 1 a. m. The following places are ing house, with a burial ground attached. Harling Unionist included in the Petty Sessional Division :-Attleborough, Club was established in I88g for the working people of this llanham, Be.sthorpe, Blo' Norton, BretLenham, , parish. A short distance north of the town is a limekiln. Buckenham (New), Buckenham (Old), Eccles, Garboldis­ A corn market is held here every Tuesday. A market, to be ham, Gasthorpe, , Hargham, Harling held on Tuesdays, and two yearly fairs were granted by (East), Harling (West), Hockham, Illington, Kcnning­ Edw. IV. in 1474: during the last and earlier part of the hall, , Larling, Lopham (North), Lopham present century the market was well supplied, cheese, butter (South), Quidenham, , Rockland (All Saints and provisions being sold on Cheese hill, and in the Market & St. Andrew's), Roudbam, Rushford, Shropham, Snare­ place the worsted, yarn and hempen goods manufactured in I hill (Great & Little), , Wilby, Wretham (Ea.st) the locality; the market was then largely attended, but & Wretham (West) rapidly declined after the construction of the railway to Nor­ County Police Station, Charles Wright, superintendent, & 2 wich. The annual fair days, viz. May 4th, the first Tues­ constables day after Sept. 12th and Oct. 24th, are now, as far as sheep Public Officers :- and bullocks are concerned, obsolete. In the place of these Medical Officer & Public Vaccinator, 3rd & 4th Districts, there are annual sheep sales, one on the first Thursday Guiltcross Union, William Edward Soffe L.F.P.S.Glas in July, principally for lambs, a great many being bred in Assistant 0\rerseer & Collector of Hates, Frederick Seakens the district around, and another in April, chiefly for hoggets, National Voluntary School (mixed), erected in 1842 & en­ a large number of sheep being penned on each occasion. larged in 1895, & will now hold 240 children; average The town lands of 96 acres produce £76 yearly, which is attendance, 205 ; Alfred James Coldham, master distributed as follows: one third to the church, one third Harling Road Railway Station, William Frederick Mil.esr towards the support of the public schDol and the remainder station master

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Aldis Henry, baker, White Hart street : Burlingham John, farmer, Fan lane Barker Caleb, The Beeches Bailey Albert William, plumber & . Butters Charles, news agent, Market pi Colman Timothy, Eastfield house glazier, School lane , Coller R. & Sons, coal & corn mer- Cracknell Mrs. White Hart street Baker Sarah (Mrs.), pork butcher, · chants, Harling Road station GayfordArthur, White house, Cheese hill White Hart street Colman Thomas Banyard, miller (water" Goodchild Robert, White Hart street Barclay & Co. Limited (branch) (Thos. & steam) Grigson Rev. BaseleyHalesB.A.(rector), Slack, manager, from Diss branch, Crook George, hawker, Gallants lane East Harling hall attends tues. I till5 & fri. w till2), CrookMartha(Mrs.),shopkpr.Gallantsla Kerridge Mrs. Market place draw on head office, 54 Lombard I Crook Robert, boot ma. White Had st Kerridge Miss, Market place street, London E C ! Cullingford William, watch & clock Pattinson Christopher George, School la Barnard Charles, boot maker, Market pi maker, Market place Soffe William Edward, White Hart st Barnard Maria (Mrs.), postmistress, Day Daniel, farm bailiff to Lord Egerron Whewell Mrs. Gallants lane Market place of Tatton, Lime Kiln farms Wycherley Rev. Richard Newman, Barrett W illiam. insurance agent, White DaynesAlfd. coopr. &basket ma. Cheese W Market place Hart street DoddWalterJohn, Ctlal dealer, Market str COMMERCIAL. Brooks Eliza (Mrs.), dress ma.Market pl East Harling Medical Club (T. Smith, AldertonGeo. coal dlr. rd Bryan t Richard & Son, corn merchants ; sec.), White llart Btreet Alderton John, thatcher, rd retail stores, Market place Edwards James, carpenter, The Limes