,DIRECTORY.] . THORPE MORIEUX. Post Office.-Miss Caroline Stammers, sub-postmistress, National School (mixed), was enlarged & improveJ br Letters arrive from Eye at 7 a.m. & 2.30 p.m.; dis­ Lord Henniker in 1874, for go children; averag-e· at;. patched at 2.15 & 6.30 p.m.; on sundays at 10.30 tendance, 68; Miss Evans, mistress; Miss Welron, a.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. Thl~ assistant mistress nearest money order & telegraph offices are at Finning­ •• ham & Eye. 3 miles distant • .. ",' . ~ • . PBIVATE nESIDENTS. COMMEBCUL. Robinson Elizb. (Mrs.),frmr.Street fm Henniker Lord M.A., F.S.A., V.D., Bean Arthur Edward, grcr. & drapr Rose Wm. miller (wind) & farmt'1I D.L., J.P. Thornham hall; & Wor­ Elsden Edward B. farmer. The Grove Stammers Caroline (Miss). Post office lingworth hall; Government house, Goodenough James, farmer Stammers John, gamekeeper to Lord

l)ougla1s, Isle of Man; & CarIton Knight James, farmer Henniker , . ~ 'Ilrave]ers' clubs, London SW Nunn Robert, farmer Stocking Eliza (Mrs.), dress maker Campbell Rev. OYlin Arthur Fitz­ Perkins John, head gardener to Lord Warren Edward Kimberley• ..Horse gerald M.A. Rectory Henniker, Park villa Shoes P.R. & faTmer ".., . ' • • • THORNHAM P ARVA is a parish and village about consolidated with that of Thornham Magna,_ Lord 2i miles south-west from Eye terminal station on a Henniker, who is lord of the manor, and Lady Bl!.teman. branch ()f the Great Eastern railway, in the North East- of Broome Hall, are the principal landowners. Th~, soil ern division of the county, , petty is clay and heavy land, some mixed; subsoil, clay. The sessional division and union, Eye county court district, chief crops are wheat and barley. The f:lrea is 676 rural deanery of Hartismere, archdeaconry of Suffolk acres; rateable value. £54°; the population in 18gI

end diocese ()f Norwich. The church of St. Mary is a was 136. j timall but ancient edifice of flint and stone, in the Nor- Parish Clerk, John Nunn. man style, and consists of chancel, nave and a western Letter Box adjoining the Bull inn, Yaxley. cleared at.7'S tower containing one bell: the church, which has a p.m. Letters through Eye, vi& Thornham Magna. thatched roof, was restored in 1883. when a small Nor- ar:rive at 7.35 a.m. The nearest money order & tele- man window was discovered: there. is also a Norman graph office is at Eye, 2i miles distant. Telegrams doorway: the church affords about 100 sittings. The can be dispatched from Meills railway station, (G.E.R) register commences in 17II. The living is a rectory, The children attend school at Thornham Magna COMMERCIAL. MOoSs Lazarus, attendance officer to Nunn Charles, farmer . Blake John, farmer, Carter's farm Hartismere union, school attpndance Symonds Edward, farm bailiff, to Doggett Robert, farmer, Chape: farm committee & sanitary insppctor to Messrs. Betts & Co. Chandos farm Lamb Betsy (Mrs.), shopkeeper Hartismere Rural District Council I , • • . , . T THORPE-by- is a parish and small sole landowner. The town estate, comprising 218. village on the Upper Ouse and road to Thetford, si . II'. 37p. of land in this and the parishes of Honing­ miles north.:.west from Thurston station on the Bury ton and , together with a cottage and barn, and Ipswich section of the Great Eastern railway, I! was sold in 1871 for £1,000, subsequently invested in the north-west from Ixworth and 8 north-east from Bury Consolidated £3 per Cent. Annuities for the benefit of the St. Edmunds, in the North Western division of the county, church, school and the poor, nnder the direction {)f 5 'Blackbourn hundred and petty sessional division. Thingoe trustees; John Wright' in 1674 bequeathed £20 for the union, Bury. St. Edmunds county court district, rural benefit of the poor widows of this parish, which with £10 deanery of :Blackburne, archdeaconry of Sudbury and belonging to the parish was expended in the purchase of 5 diocese of Ely. The church of All Saints is an ancient acres of land at Hopton, now let for £3 1519. yearly. etructure of rubble, in the Early English style, with a The soil is mixed; subsoil, varioUlS. The chief crops. are thatched roof, and consists of chancel, n8lve, south porch wheat, barley, oats, beans, turnips and sainfoin. The and a portion of a brick tower, surmounted by a small area is 1,059 acres; rateable value. £884; the popUlation wooden belfry containing one bell: the porch is embattled: in 18g1 was 130. the cha.ncel retains a piscina, and! two mural monuments to Parish Clerk, John Simper. , the Croft family, dated respectively 1616 and 1644: the (lhurch is seated with oak benches adorned with poppy Letters from Bury St. Edmunds by messenger from Ix- beads and carving, and adfording lIO sittings, 88 of which worth, arrive about 7 a.m. &. about 4 p.m. Wall are free. The register