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Caller R. & Sons Ltd. coal & corn Newson W. T. & Sons, builders, PRIVATE RESIDEN'IS. merchants, Harling Road station ; Cheese hill llarker Caleb, The Beeches & at ~orwich Norfolk & Christmas Fat Cooper Waiter Edward Colman Thomas Banyard, farmer Stock Show Association (Caleb Bar­ Cracknell Mrs. White Hart street Cook Richard Cornish, Bull P.H. ker & Co. secs) Doe Charles Market place Osborne Alban, farmer, The Hill frm Grigson Rev. Baseley Hales B. A. (rec- Cooper Waiter Edward M.R.C.S.Eng., Osborne Alban Edwd. saddler, Cheese tor), hall L.R.C.P.Lond. physician & sur­ hill Kerridge Waiter W. J. Gallants lane geon, & medical officer & public Page James, shopkeeper, Market place Markham Stephen Charles, Eccles rd vaccinator for Harling district of Palmer Alfred, coal dealer, Market st Mornement Major Edward (4th Terri- the union & Palmar Fredk. coal dealer, Gallants la torial Batt. Norfolk Regt) di~trict, Wayland union Pattinson Ohristopher George, coal Mornement Mn Crook Robert, boot ma. White Hart st & corn merchant & miller Ray John Norman Charles, White ho Cullingford William, watch & clock Pole Margaret (Miss), private school t3olly Alfred, White Hart street maker, Market place for girls, West view Tillott Fredk. William, Eastfield ho Daynes George,shopkpr. White Hart •t Pollard Wllllam Robert, wholesale Wright Mrs. The Cedars Dixon H. & Son, boot repairers & retail ironmonger, furnishing East Harling & District Bowling Club warehouseman, oil, calor & paint COMMERCIAL. (Edwd. A. Fox, hon.sec.),Swan hot! merchant, cycle agent, general Early closing day, Thursday. Everett Ernest, grocer, Market place smith & agricultural implement re­ Alderton Ernest, thatcher, Kenning- Fox Edward Arth. butcher, Market pl pairer, Market place hall road Frost Saml. King's Head P.H. Ken- Reeve Thos. Wm. butcher, Cheese hill ..Annison Jas.Nag'sHeadP.H.Market pl ninghall road Richards Philip, chemist & dealer in llailey Albert William, plumber & Graham Thomas & Son, lime burners photo materials glazier, King street & School lane Greenwood Matthew Bennett & Son, Royal Norfolk .Agricultural Associa­ 'Barclay & Company Ltd.(sub-branch) farmers, Hill House farm tion (C. Barker & Co. secs) (Charles F. Halls, manager, from Halls William, Trowel & Hammer Rudd Henrv &. Son, builders, Thetford branch, attends tues. & P .H. White Hart street contractors & decorators ; sanitary fri. 10.30 till 2) ; draw on head Harding Christopher Hervey, baker, work carried out on up-to-date office, 54 Lombard st. E C Cheese hill lines, White Hart street 'Barker Caleb & Co. land agents, sur- Hewett Henry,cycle agt. White Hart st Saul Henry William, butcher, Mar­ veyors & secs. to The Royal Norfolk Hudson Edwd. jobmastr.Mt. Pleasant ket place Agricultural Association & to the Hunt Jas. chimney sweeper,Cheese hill Seakens Frederick, insurance agent, Norwich Fat Cattle Show; chief Kerrison Rebecca (Mrs.), carrier to & assistant overseer & colleotor of office, East Harling, Thetford & on I from railway statn. G.E.R.Cheese hi poor rates for the parishes of East saturdays at Bank chambers, Lawrence Thomas Clarence, miller Harling, , & Blo' Norwich (wind), road Norton, road "Barker Caleb, agent for the estates of Linstead Henry .Alfred,assessor & col- Skipper Charles Wm. horse breaker, Sir E. C. Nugent bart. ; Capt. H. lector of the King's taxes, Gar- Gallants lane S. Adlington's trustees & C. H. B. boldisham road Smith Jn. Baker,grocer,White Hart st Caldwell esq. ; & (on saturdays) at London & Provincial Bank Limited Swan Family & Commercial Hotel Bank chambers, Norwich (sub-agency) (W.M.Thomas,mgr.); (Henry Hardy Brown, proprietor), flarrett William,insurance agent, White· attends every tues. from 3 to 5; Market place Hart street draw on head office, 7 Bank buildgs. Territorial Force Battalion (4th) Nor­ flateman Edgar, White Hart P.H. E C & Glyu, Mills, Currie & Co. folk Regiment (detachment of E White Hart street London E C Co.), Capt. H. C. Long, commndng "Bridges William, shoeing smith, Mornement &. Ray Limited, en- Towell Harry,hair dresser, Market pl White Hart street 1 gineers (consulting civil) & sur- Unionist Club (Sir Edmund C. Nugent '"Brown Henry Hardy, Swan family & I veyors, contractors for dredging bart. D.L., J.P. president; T. commercial hotel & posting estab- rivers, lakes & canals, lake & re­ Sayer, hon. sec)

lishment ; ea tering, good' accommo- ',I servoir construction, water supply, Warby John William, grocer, King dation for cyclists & motors ; bowl- earth works &c. agricultural con- street & Market place ing green, Market place tractors for steam ploughing, Waring Jsph. shopkpr. White Hart st

Burlingham John, farmer, Fen lane 1 threshing, road rolling &c Williams William, White Lion P.H. Butters Charles, news agent,Market ~Jl' Nebbett Thomas Harr,"1plumber, Market place Claxton Frank,rabbit salesman, White! painter, decorator,builder & electric Hart street I bell fitter, White Hart street WEST HARLING is a parish in the 1outhern vale of the de Angerville family: about rs64 the estate was pur­ the , 2! miles south from the Harling Road chased by Bassingbourne Gawdy esq. of Mendham, , station on the Thetford and Norwich section of the Great from whom it descended t.o the family of Berdwell, and Eastern railway and 7 north-east from Thetford, in the was held by them for many years, and subssquently came Mid division of the county, Guiltcross and petty into the possession of Nicholas William (Ridley-Colborne), sessional division, hundred of Guiltcross, union of Thet­ rst baron Colborne, whose seat this was until his death. ford, county court district, rural deanery ~ May, 1854, when the title became extinct. Berdwell r0f Rockland (south division), archdeaconry of Norfolk and Hall, an embattled mansion af stone, surrounded by a . Middle or Little Harling was united deep moat, formerly occupied the site of the present Hall, to West Harling in 1433· The church of All Saints, but was pulled down in 1725 by Joshua Draper esq. who 1i'ituated in the park, is an ancient structure of flint, had purchased the West Harling estate from the three in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel with chapel, nieces and heiresses of Sir Bassingbourne Gawdy, 3rd and nave, south porch and an embattled western tower con­ last bart. d. 1723 : the existing Hall, a. mansion of brick, taining 8 tubular bells, presented by Lady Nugent: in begun about 1725 by Joshua Draper esq. was sold by him the chapel (now a vestry) were buried several members in 1736 to Richard Gipps esq. who completed the work: of the Gawdy and Berdwell families, including John the house, which stands in the centre of an extensive and Gawdy, ob. 29 Nov. 1694: the church was thoroughly beautiful park, watered by the river Thet, is built in part restored by Sir E. C. Nugent hart. in 1902: the pulpit with the materials of Old Berdwell Hall, and is now the wa~ thE' gift of Lady Nugent: there are 100 sittings. property and residence of Sir Edmund Charles Nugent The register dates from the year 1559· The living is a bart. D.L .• J.P. lord of the manor and chief landowner. rectory, net yearly value £130, including 20 acres of In the park is ths sits, now indicated by a circular plan­ •glebe, with residence, in the gift of Sir Edmund C. tation. of the church of St. Andrew, Middls Harlinsr, Nrigent bart. and held since 1899 by the Rev. Charle11 rlemoli!:hed in 1543. The soil is ~andy; subsoil. chalk. Hugh Richardson Harper :M.A. of St. John's College. The chief crops are wheat, rye, barley and oat~. The . The town lands, lying in Banham, and area. is :l· 101 acres of land and 15 of water; rateable value, given by Margaret, wife of John Gawdy esq. mentioned £944; the population in rgii was 126. -above, now (rgr2) produce about £4 yearly: other l~nd Parish Clerk, William Oakley, Paper cottages. given by the same person was sold in 1906 and the Letters from Thetford. vill. East Harling, which i~ thl'l proceeds vested in the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. nearest money order & telegraph office, about 2 mile11 and now produce £r6 yearly. The money is used rli~tant 1or the support of a medical charity and clothing club. No Letter Box. Letters are delivered about 8 a. m. & 5·30 In the time of the Conqueror there were here p.m. & collected at same times several !1mall manors held as a berewic of the capital ThP rbildren of this place attend East Harling & -manor of Kenninghall by the Albinis and their successors, schools