DIRECTORY. J . WEST TOFTS. 485

.!Davey Edwd. coal merchant & grocer, Hull Thos.Freeman, frmr.Chestnut fm Self George, miller (wind & steam) &; & Post office Le Grvs Waiter James, farmer farmer lDenney Arthur W., R.S.S. shoeing & Moore.John, Star P.H Sherwood Ernst.manure & oil cake agt; general smith Moy Thomas Lim. coal merchants (R. Shibley Henry, farm bailiff to Wm. l>rane Waiter, farmer, Prangale lane Stammers, agent) Parkinson esq Dra.ne Wm. farmer, Willow Tree farm Read Thos. Matthews, maltster, corn Snelling Henry, pork butcher, flour· Elmer J esse, farmer, Beck Green farm & coal merchant dealer .&; carrier Fuller M aria Sarah (Mrs. ),Railway htl Sendall .John Green, farmer Vyse John George, grocer & farmer Harris Sarah (Mrs.), farmer "l'IVETSHALL ST. MARY is a parish and village trustees of the late John Hotson esq. of Stratton St. Mary, ~n the high road from London to Norwich, about 2! miles are lords of the manor. The principal landowners are the south from the Tivetshall St. Margaret junction station trustees of the late Jonathan Boyce esq. and Sir Kenneth o0n the Great Eastern railway, and 5~ miles north-north- Hagar Kemp bart. of Mergate Hall, . The east from Diss, in the Southern division of the county, stump of the famous "Thwaites' Tree" now rests in the Di~s hundred and petty sessional division, Depwade union, garden of Mr. Arthur George Boyce, of The Grove Farm. Harleston county court district, rural deanery of Reden- The soil is heavy; subsoil, clay. The chief crops a.re hall, archdeaconry of Norfolk and diocese of Norwich. wheat, barley, peas and beans. The parish contains r,r25 The church of St. Mary is an ancient building of flint acres; rateable value, [.r,r67; the population in 1901 .and stone, in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, was 263 . .consisting of large chancel, nave, south porch and a west- Parish Clerk, J ames Moore. -ern tower containing 4 bells: the chancel is Early English, Post & Postal Order Office.-Arthur Robert Harvey, sub- and much later than the tower: there are 300 sittings. master. Letters arrive through Norwich at 8.25 a.m. The register dates from the year 1672. The living is a & 6.15 p.m.; sundays, delivered 8.55 a.m.; dispatched rectory, with that of Tivetshall St. Margaret annexed, at 8.20 a.m. & 6.ro p.m.; sundays, dispatched at 8.50 joint net yea.rly value [.546, including 28 acres of glebe, a.m. The nearest money order office is at Pulham St. w.ith residence, in the gift of the Rev. T. J. Robert Armine Mary Magdalen; the nearest telegraph office is ab .Slipper M.A. and held since 1900 by the Rev. William Tivetshall St. Margaret ..Armine Slipper M.A. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Wall Pillar Box, opposite Rectory grounds, cleared at 8.20 The fuel allotment of 3 acres is let at £5 yearly; there is a. m. & 6.20 p.m.; sundays, 8.35 a.m also about half an acre of land, called " Saints yard," let Public Elementary School, built in 1876, with house at- for 34s. yearly, 14s. of which is given to the poor in tached for the master, at a cost of £8oo, & enlarged coal and the remainder to the church; the poor have in 1886 at a cost of £roo, for 120 children; average also 13s. 4d. yearly from Le Neve's charity. These chari- attendance, roo; Frederick Haimes, master; Mrs. ties are now distributed by the Parish Council. The Florence Haimes, mistress Porter T. Clarence Boyce John, farmer & landowner Redgrave Thos. Hy. farmer,Mardel fm Elipper Rev. Thomas John Robert Harvey Arthur Robert, carp:mter & Reeve Edwin William, blacksmith Armine M.A. (curate), The Rectory wheelwright, Post office Robertson A.rth. Jn.farmr.·& landowner Slipper Rev. William Arrnine M.A. Hubbard George, farmer Snelling Colin, thatcher The Rectory Lincoln George, boot & shoe maker Sutton Hannah (Mrs.),frmr.& shopkpr Moore David, farmer Symes Henry George, Ram P.H COMMERCIAL. Moo re J acob, farmer Thorpe Edward, farmer Barker Isaac, householder Peake Emma (Mrs.), shopkeeper Wilby George, market gardener lroyce Arthur Geo. farmer, The Grove Puttock Sam, farmer "!"OFT MONKS is a parish and village ri miles from also about an acre of land let in r6 allotments to the .A.ldeby station on the Ipswich and Lowestoft section, 3 parishioners; the income from the whole now ( 1904) south west from Haddi~oe station on the Norwich and averages £4o yearly, which is administered by the church­ Ya;rmouth and Lowestoft section of the Great Eastern wardens. In 1798 a sum of £4o was left by William Tailway, 4 north-east from and 6 south-east from Crisp, the interest of which is distributed by the church­ Loddon, in the Southern division of the county, Clavering wardens to the sick and aged of the parish. Caleb hundred, Loddon and Olavering petty sessional division Colman esq. of Toft Monks House, Mr. Alfred Winter, of :and union, county court district of Bungay and Beccles, The Hall, the trustees of the late Ambrose J. R. Palmer rural deanery of Brooke (Ea.stern division), archdeaconry esq. of Hall (d. 1904), the Provost and fellows ()f Norfolk and diocese of Norwich. The church of St. of King's College, Cambridge, and Nicholas Henry Bacon "Margaret is a building of flint in the DecoTated style, esq. of Hall, are the chief landowners; the .consisting of chancel, na.ve, south porch and a western latter are lords of the manor and impropriators of two­ '()Ctagonal embattled tower containing 3 bells: the interior thirds of the tithes. The soil is mixed heavy land; sub­ -was restored and reseated in 1873 at a cost of £220: the soil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans, .church plate includes a chalice of silver, dated 1567: peas and roots. The area is 2,229 acres of land, of which 'there are roo sittings. The register dates from the year 6oo acres are marsh and 76 woods and plantation, 3 '~558. The living is a rectory, consolidated with that of of water, 13 of tidal water and 23 of foreshore; rateable 'Haddiscoe, joint net yearly value {.335, including 36 acres value, £2,017; the population in 1901 was 347· .of glebe, in the gift of King's College, Cambridge, and Parish Clerk, Frederick Snowling 'held since 1901 by the Rev. Norton George Lawson M.A. Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & A. & I. Office.-Robert Tripp o{)f that college, who is diocesan inspector of schools, and Sharman, subpostmaster. Letters arrive from Beccles -resides at the rectory, Haddiscoe. The Primitive Metho- at 7·55 & 10.35 a .. m.; dispatched at 12.55 & 5.20 p.m.; ·dist chapel, built in 1848, was rebuilt in 1873· The town no sunday post. The nearest telegraph office is at .estate comprises ro acres of marsh land, situated in the , 2 miles distant parish of Haddiscoe, and about one acre of garden ground, Public Elementary School (mixed), for the parishes of upon which three small tenements formerly existed, called Toft Monks and Haddiscoe, built in 1870 at a cost '"The Guildhall Kitchen," and destroyed by fire in 1899, of £r,ooo, for r5o children; average attendance, roo; 1mt replaced by three brick cottages in 1901 ; there is Britiff Tidd, master; Mrs. Agnes Tidd, mistress (Jolman Caleb, Toft Monks house Curtis James, market gardener Smith Henry Thomas, gro.cer &c. see Freeland Russell Guy, The Elms Curtis Jas. shopkeeper, Maypole green Land & Smith . Harrison Charles A. Whindale Farrow Edmund, farmer; & at Soanes Chas. boot maker, Bull's green Trotter Alexander, Hill house Raveningham Tidd Britiff, schoolmaster ' COMMERCIAL. Forder Arthur William, carpenter Tingey Charlie, farmer, Fuller's farm Amiss John, farm bailiff to Mr. John Land & Smith, grocers, drapers k Ward William, farm bailiff to the Donaldscn outfitters exors. of A. J. R. Palmer esq 'Rarwood Alfred & William John, far- Land Wiliiam, farmer & landowner, Westrup Samuel, farmer, market gar- m~rs, Thatched House farm Wood farm dener & coal dealer "'Brock Joseph, carpenter , Long George, market gardener White John, farm bailiff to Thomas Calthorpe Edward Dennis, farmer Yaddle William, fanner ·&landowner Frest-on West esq.Maypole Green fm Cockrell Wm. White Lion P.H.&btchr Rackham Jonatban, grocer & draper Winter Alfred, farmer & landowner, Colman Caleb, farmer, Toft Monks ho Sharman Rt. Tripp,agricultural engm Toft Monks hall Curtis Henry, market gardener Skoulding .Tames, farmer, Priory farm Wright Geo. market grdnr.Maypole gn' WEST TOFTS is a parish and village 5 miles north- sessional division, Thetford union and county court dis­ Pt~st. from Brandon iltation on the Ely and Thetford section triet, rural deanery of Crauwich (South division), arch­