DIRECTORY. J . HARDLEY. 167 r . , . ' the church was decorated and several gifts were added: Hall, is the chief landowner. The soil is gravel and Jlint; there are 100 ..sittings. "The register dates from the ;rear subsoil, mixed. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley and 1653· The living is a vicarage, net yearly value .£,121 1 _turnips. The area is 700 acres; rateable value, £94I; with residence, in the gift of Chr{st's College, Cambridge, in Igo,r the population was 156. and held since 1898 by the :Rev. William Arth. Baker M.A. Parish Clerk, John EastolL of Christ's College, Cambridge. Here is a Presbyterian Sext1m-, Sam11el Brown. chapel, seating 206 persons, and founded in 1741 by 'Mrs. Gay-. with a r~sidence for the- minister and an 11ttached Letters re~eived through Norwich arrive about 9 a.m. &; burill'l ground; the chapel is .endowed 'with the rent of 6.30 p.m. Wall Letter Box cleared at to a.m. &; 7 p.m. about 121 acres of land in the parish, let for £170 a year. Flordon is -the nearest money order office ; telegraph The village club was erected in ~893 by the Rev. T. office at the Flordon railway station,. If miles di11tant Orbell M.A. vicar 1892-8, and opened by the JDaster of l'ublic :Elementary School (mixed). formerly two cottllges, Christ~s College; a library was formed in 1896 and has was adapted to its present pul'Pose ,in 1898; ,it will now 250 volumes. The Baroness Berners is lady of the hold 7Q. children; average attendance, 56; Mis& Emma. manor and Col. Sir 'Charles Harvey hart. of ltainthOI:pe Ives, mistress

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMME:ijCtAL~ Gray Daniel, White Horse P.H · Bake:r Rev. )V.il1iani Arthu'r M,.A, Aldi$ .Alfred w. market gardener .LeOO.et Nicholas; farmer, Bapton hall • Vicarage BowmJJl Ernest, farmer Ludkin George, grocer Rump Rev. ,A..lfred (Presbyterian), Calver Chas. carpenter &; wheelwright Village Club , Hapton house . Punthorne, Norton, farmr.Chapel frm Wright James, cattle dealer RARDINGHAM is a very scattered parish, with a sion of brick, the propexty of Frederick Oddin Taylor esq. station r mile north-east from the village, on the Wymond- of St. Ethelbert's, Norwich, and .iJY now the residence of barn and DerehaiiJ branch of the Great Eastern railway, 121 Sir William F(Agter hart. D·.L., J.P. The Earl of Kimber­ miles f!l.'om London and 5! north-west from , ley is lord of the manors of Flocktborpe and Hardingham. in the Mid diviaion of the county, Mitford hundred, M~tford H. W .. B. Edwards esq . .is the principalla.ndowner; F. 0. and Launditch union and petty sessional division, Wy- 'Iaylor esq. of Norwich, is also a landowner in the parish. mondham county court district, rural deanery of Hingham, The soil is c:ayey; subsoil, brick earth. The -chief crops Mitford division, archdeaconry of Norfolk and diocese of are wheat, barley, turnips and bay. ~he area is 2,4rll Norwich. The church of St. George is a building of flint acres; r.ateable value, £3,441; the population in 1901 and stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, was 426. nave and an embattled tower on the south side containing Parish Clerk, Esau Yeomans. one bell ; the lower stage of the tower forms the entrance : ... M 0 0 S B. & A & I Offi th Hall · · a1 f t d' · d · · . h tt Post a. ~ . . . , . . . . ce, near e . the ongm on • se Iha an piscma remam, t e 1 a er Arthur Riches, sub-_postmaster. . Letters received being of a peculiar design with intersecting arches: the through Attleborough arrive about 0_30 a.m. & 2 Jl-m.; large east window1 placed in 1899, is a memorial to the dispatched at 9_30 a.m. & 1 & p.m. ; sundays, I2 Edwards family: there are 250 sittings. The register noon. The nearest telegraph office7 is at Hingham, dates from the year 1.699· The living is a rectory, net about 2 miles distant from post office. Pillar Letter yearly value £430, including 66 acres of glebe, with · k d residence, in the gift of Clare College, Cambridge, and Box, at !ltatJOn, cleared I.I5 & 7 p.m. wee ays i sun- held since I874 by the Rev. Charles Stutevil!e Isaacson Th~ayid~~1~s a~blic Elementary ·Scho~i. erected, with M.A. and formerly fellow of that college. The poor have master's house. in 1862, at a cost of £ 1,300, by the £2 10s. and the rent of 23 acres, let for £25 yearly, which late Miss Edwards; the school was enlarged in 1ss3, sums are distributed in coals in the winter. Hardingham & .in 1892 a clock with bell was . erected by the Hall, the seat of Henry William Bartholomew Edwards esq. parishioners in memory of the late Miss Edwards; the D.L., J.P. erected towards the t::lose of the 17th century, is school will hold 130 children; average attendance~ ; a mansion of red brick, and has been much altered and ~ 95 beautified by the pre.sent occupier. Hardingham Lodge, Thomas Redford, master; Mrs. Elizabeth An"Q.Bed!ord. mistress the property of H. W. B. Edwards esq. is surrounded by very fine gardens and conservatories, but is at_ present Railway Station, Charles Howard Smith, stal.ion master {1904) unoccupied. Hardingham Grove is a modern man- Carrier to Norwich,-Robert Cole, on sat . . PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Baly John&; Son, corn; coal&; generaljJermy Edward, farmer Baly George John, Station farm merchants &; farmers, Station farm Norton John, farmer, Mansion gNeD Coombs Rev. William Reginald M.A. &; granaries &; Hill farm (curate) , Barnard Jas. wheelwright &; blacksmth Prentice Bros. Lim. (Jn. Baly & Son. Edwards Henry William Bartholomew Barnes George, 'baker agents)~ manure manufrs.; works. D.L., J.P. Hardingham hall Breeze Henry~ farmer, Dunmore fa1m Yarmouth &; Stowmarket; Foster Sir Willi'am hart. D.L., J.P. Breeze Thomas, hsehldr. Low St. frm Quantrill Robert, farmer The Grove Butters Edward, f~rm steward to Sir Bedford Thomas, school master~ &; lsaacson Rev. Charles Stuteville M,A. William Foster hart. D.L., J.P assistant- overseer • (rector), Rectory Capps Geovge, farmer & landowner, Riches Arthur, Post office T-atham George Henry Nordle corner Risebrook Thomas William, farmer OO:w.t:EBCIAL. Carter Oscar, police constable Sculpher George Dennis, frmr.Hall fm Alien Lee, miller (water & wind) & Coleman William, farmer&; cattle dlr Smith Charles Howard, station was- farmer; dressed poultry & eggs;. Cole Robert, carrier ter, Railway station furnished apartments&; good fishing Caller R. & Sons, coal merchants Woolnough George, head gardener a\ for visitors, Hardingham mills Cordy Sarah(Mrs. ),farmr.Gresham fm Hardingham lodge Anderson Hy.Richd.blacksmth.Low st Daniels James, farmer Yeomans Alfred (Mrs.), shopkeeper Andrews Geor.ge, beer retailer Green William Warth, Railway hotel Yeomans Esau, parish clerk Arthurton Wm. farmer, Mansion grn Harrold Herbert, farmer. Old hall

HARDLEY .is a parish about 3 miles south-west from Norwich. The Wesleyan chapel here is now ruinous, Reedham station and 2 south-east from Cantley station, Hardley Hall, an interesting and ancient building, was both on the Norwich and Lowestoft section of the Great formerly much larger, and an important county seat;. Eastern railway, 2i north-east frem Loddon and 11 south­ it i~ now used as a farmhouse and is occupied by Mr. east from Norwich; and in the Southern division of the Edward Walter Hayward. Sir Reginald William Proctor­ county, Loddon hundred, Loddon and Clavering petty ses­ Beauchamp bart. of Langley Park, is lord of the manol' sional division and union, county court district of Norwich, and principal landowner. The soil is fine mixed; sub­ rural deanery of Brooke eastern divisioll, .'J.rchdeaconry of soil, sand, gravel and clay. The chief crops are wheat, Norfolk and . In this parish t1e Chet barley and roots. The area is 1,491 acres of land, 8 of falls into the navigable Yare. The- church of St. Margaret water and 17 of tidal water; rateable value, £1.,213; the is a building of flint in the Perpendicular style, consisting population in I901 was 246. . Qf chancel, nave, north porch and a round embattled Parish Clerk, William Fish. western tower containing 3 bells: there are ISO sittings. The register dates from the year 1715. The living is a Letters through Norwich arrive at 7.30 a.m. Wall Letter vicarage, net yearly value £150, in the gift of the trustees Box, Avenue farm, cleared at 8 a.m. & 3.15 p.m. Loddon of the Great Hospital, Norwich (who are the impropriators is th~ nearest money order &; telegraph office, 2i mile• otthe rectorial tithes, commuted in 1842 for £328), and distant held since 1891 by the Rev. William Ford Hale M.A. of The children at this place attend the schools at Langley & ()riel GoUege, Odold, ldlo "ft&idea ..at "'tl .Thol'pe l-oal.i,