,DIRECTORY.] SUFFOLK. 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, Hartismere hundred, 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-IXWORTH 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 Troston, 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