172 HORNINGSHEATH. SUFFOLK. [ KELLY'S joint net yearly value £321, including 18 acres of glebe, Post, M. O. &; T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, S. B. with residence, in the gift of the Marquess of Bristol, &; AI1JIl'llity &; Insurance Office.-George Oorne11, sub­ and held since 1883 by the Rev. James Giddens RA. of postmaster. Letters arrive from Bury St. Edmunds London University. The village club and reading room at S.30 a.m.; dispatched at 6,45 p.m.; sun. 1.10 p.m is affiliated to the county society at Ipswich. The Hop­ Pillar Box, at the west end of the village, cleared 6.10 leys, a large mansion, standing in park-like grounds of p.m. week days &; II.40 a.m. on sundays 60 acres, is occupied by the Hon. Mortimer 'l'ollemache. Wall Box, near Horringer Court, cleared at 7.10 p.m.; Horringer House is the residence of Major John Arthur sundays, 1.35 p.m Lainson. Horsecroft is the property of Arthur Wigston esq. and Horringer Court, the property and residence of Carrier.-chalIis pa'sses through wed. &; sat. to Bury St. Edward Robert Hawkins esq. J.P. The Marquess of Edmunds Bristol, who is lord of the manor, and Arthur Wigston Police Station, Frederick George Brunning, constable esq. are the principal landowners, and there are a few Schools. smaller own~rs. The soil is of a loamy nature; subsoil, Nationar (boys &;girls), built by the 1st Marquess oJ clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The Bristol, about 1846, for 120 children; average atten­ area is 2,209 acres; rateable value, £2,313; the popu­ dance" 72; William Curtis, master lation in 1891 W8'S' 599. Infant, erected in 1860, to hold 42 children; 8veragtt Parish Clerk, Valentine Edwards. attendance, 36; Mrs. Herbert Cooke, mistress Carter Fredk. Tom, Horringer cottage Boreham Joseph, shoe maker Last-IIenry, farmer Coleman William Thomas Cooke Samuel &; Herbert, blacksmiths, Marriott Alfred, blacksmith Giddens Rev. James RA. Rectory wheelwrights, builders, decorators ,&; Moore Geo. farmer, Gt. Horringer haD Hawkins Edwd. Robt.J.P.Horringer ct undertakers Parker Henry, shopkeeper Lainson MajorJn.Arthur,Horringer ho Cornell George, shopkee.per, Post office Preston William, Six Bells P.H Paley William Victor, Brooke house Cornell Herbert, farmer Prewer John, well sinker Tollemache Hon.Mortimer,TheHopleys Edwards Sarah (Mrs.), beer retailer Robertson Chas.Thomson Archd.farm.:J' &; shopkeeper Simpson Robert Thoma's, farmeJ', COM:MEBCIAL. Horningsheath &; Ickworth VillageCIub , Horsecroft Alston John Edward, farmer &; Institute (Marquess of Bristol, Sturgeon John, farmer Avey WaIter, farmer president; Frederick Carter, sec) HOXNE is a large villa.ge and parish,'head of a union, Gothic cross, erected a.s a memorial to "Harlequin ,p on the south. bank of the Waveney and on the borders and Qther favoU!1'ite c1blargers of the late Gen. Sir E. of Norfolk, 5 miles south-east from DisliI station on the Kerrisoo. A bridge, built by the late Sir E. C. KerrisoD Ipswich and Norwich section and 3~ n'Orth-east from Eye bart. crosses the Gold brook. The Depperhaugh, &0 terminal statioIl! on a branch of the Great Ea·stern rail- called from its close proximity to a laa-ge wood bearing way, in the NQrth Ea,stern division of the county, hun- that name, is a fine moosion belonging to Lady Walker,. dred and petty sessi'Onal division of the Hoxne, Eye a.nd commands a beautiful view oil the surrounding coun­ county court district, rural deanery of Hoxne, arch- try; it is now (1900) unoccupied. Thorpe Hall, an old deaconry of Suffolk and diocese of Norwich. The church moated farmhouse, about 3 miles south-east from the­ of SS. Peter and Paul is a hand·some building ofi flint, church, is a. fine specimen of red brickwork with stone­ with stone dressings, in the Perpendicular style, consist- dressings and excellent chimney-s, and is occupied by ing of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch and a lofty Mr. Thomas Kent. Oak Lawn, half a. mile distant, stand­ embattled western tower with crocketed pinnacles, con- ing in its own grounds of about 20 acres, is the property taining a clock, erected in 1887, and S bells: the organ, of Misses Hanbury. Lady Bateman, of Shobdon Court, originally mechanica'l, was presented to the church by Herefordshire, is lady of the manors of Hoxne Hall with the late Gen. Sir E. Kerriso·n bart. in 1836 and subse- the Priory, and owner of the greatest part of the land; 4uently converted into a finger organ, at a cost of about the remainder belongs to John Tudor Frere esq. of Roy­ £100: at the east end of the aisle is a. mlllrble monument don, Sir B. W. Walker bart. Lord Henniker, Hon. Cha&. with life-size figure to Thomas Miaynard esq. d. 1742: Bateman-Hanbury and others. The land is of a mixed on the south wall is a beautifully carved memorial of soil; subsoil, gravel and clay. The chief crops are wheat, Cae!) stone, to Gen. Sir Edward Kerrison bart., K.C.B., barley, beans and peas. The area is 4,031 acres of land G.C.H. died 9 March, 1853; also to Sir Edward C. and 25 of water; assessable value, £3,51]; the popula­ Kerrison bart. deceased 1886: a stained window has been) tion in 1891 was 934 in the civil and 938 in the ecclesialJo erected to the memory of a former vicalr, the Rev. J. H. tical parish. Hodgson M.A. who died. 1868:. the east window and Cross Street is a populous part of the parish, sbom several others are filled WIth stamed gla~: a carved oak I mile SQuth from the church; other portions oD the screen was erected BorOSS the tower arch m 1878 : on the parish' extend in a south-easterly direction, for nelllrIy 5 floor near the chancel are three brasses to members of miles and run between Denham and 8tradbroke the' ThurstoJ1l family, dated respectively, 1606, 1613 and. . ., . 1640 : t!he chancel was extensively repaired in 1879 by Hllton, .under the DIVIded Pa.r'1shes.Act, now forms the Ecclesiastical Commissioners: there are 450 sittings. pwrt of Wllby. Heckfield Green IS I nule so~th-east. The registers date from the year IS81. The living is 8 Post, M. ~. &; T. 0., T. M. 0., Express D~livery, S. B. vicarage, net yearly value £283, with 18 acres of glebe and &; Annmty &; Insurance Office. Har~ SmIth, sub-post- residence, in the gift of Lady Bateman, and held since 1888 master. Lett~rs through Eye, arnve at 7.IS a.m. &; by the Rev. eecH Downton RA. of Queens' College, Cam- 2.45 p.m. &; dIspatched at 8.15 a.m. &; 6.25 p.m.; on bridge. The Baptist chapel, erected in 1864, has been en- sundays the box closes at 9.55 a.m larged and will seat soo. The Plymouth Brethren have also Wall Letter Boxes, Cross street, cleared at 8.30 a.m. a. meetinO' house here. Adjoining the churchyard on the &; 6.10 p.m. on week days &; 9 a.m. on sundays; south-ea;t are five almsnouses, erected in 1844, by the Chickering corner, cleared at 7.45 a.m. &; 5.55 p.m. late Gell'. Sir Edward Kerrison bart. Here was anciently week days &; on sundays at 7.45 a.m. only a Bened~ctin~ priory, founded by Herbe:t Losinga, ~ishop HOXNE RURAL DISTRIar COUNCIL. of NorWIch, In 1I01, as a. cell to NorwIch, and dedicated to St. Edmund; at the Disl'101uti'On the revenues were Mee~s at the Workhouse on alter'll'ate thursdays at 10 a.m. valued at £18. In the centre of a field l1~ar Abbey ChaIrman, Charles W. Chaston, Mendham, Harleswn Farm is a. stone cross, erected in 1879, to mark the spot Clerk, Norton BU!1'roughs Garrard, Hoxne where, accOlrding to tradition, stood the tree against Trea.surer, H. E. Buxton, Barclay's Bank, Gt. Yarm~ut:b whioh King Edmund was shot Nov. 20th, A.D. 870; MedICal Officer of Hea;Ith, Samuel John James Kirby the tree fell August, 1848, by its own weight. 8t. Ed- M:D. OakIands, Fressmgfie.ld . mund's Hall, a building of flint stone and red brick, was SaIl1tary Inspector, John FIsher, FlfessmgfieId erected in. 1~79, by Sir !'. C. Kerdson bart. as a reading HOXNE UNION. room; the library conSISts of about 400 volumes: there is also a small collection of ancient implements of war, Board day, every alternate thul"sday, at 10.30 a.m. m' &C. discovered in the parish. Oak:ley Park, on the south­ Union house, Stradbroke. west of the parish, is the residen'Ce oB Artbur Wm. Hy. The Union comprises the following places :-Athelington, Hay esq., J.P.: the mansion is a beautiful structure in Badingham, Bedfield, Bedingfield, Brundish, Denham, the Classic style, overlooking the vale of the Dove: the Denningbon, Fressingfield, Horham, Hoxne, Laxfield, eastern front is relieved by columns and there is a gallery Mendham, Metfield, Monk SohJam, Saxtead, Southolt, So feet 1'I1 length: the park contains above 600 acres, Sbradbroke, Syleham, Tannington, WeY'brood, WiIby, handsomely wooded, through which the river Dove flows, Wingfield &; Worlingworth. The area of the union is and passing in front 0.£ the mansion afterwards joiIbS the 52,764 acres; assessable value in 1900, £37,966; the Waveney: at the end of a walk in the park stands a population in 1891 was 1I,461 •