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' ' octagon; is· Perpendicular, with blank shields on the Rev. Ar"thl1r Colborne· M . .!.. of Trinity College, Dupli~. sides: the church contains a curious brass with effigies There is a· small Wesleyan chapel here. The charities. of a man in armour, his wife (figure now lost), r2 amount to £r4 yearly. Quy Hall is the residence of sons and four daughters, and a mutilated inscription, Thomas Musgrave Francis esq. M.A., D.L., J.P. who 'is which when perfect commemorated John Ansty esq. for- lord of the manor and the principal landowner. The merly lord of this " ville," and founder of Ansty's soil is various. The chief crops are wheat, barley and Charity, and Johanna his wife; he died circa q65: roots. The area is 1,872 acres of land and 7 of water; there is also a brass with arms and inscription to rateable value, [1,971 ; the population in 19II was 327. Edward Stern, 1641, and some 17th century slabs in- Parish Clerk, John Bidwell. scribed to the Lawrence family: the chancel was rebuilt Post & T. Office, Quy.-Miss Emily Watts, sub-post- about 1740 by Thomas Martyn esq. and the church mistress. Letters arrive from Cambridge at 5·55 a.m. thoroughly restored in 1879-82: in 1883 the churchyard & r.ro & 8.25 p.m.; dispatched at 11.30 a.m .& 8.25 wall was rebuilt by Thomas Musgrave Francis e~q. M.A., p.m.; sundays, 7.15 a.m. , 3 miles distant, D.L.: there· are 180 sittings. The register dates from is the nearest money order office the year r65o. The living is a vicarage, net yearly Public Elementary School (mixed), for 75 children; Miss value £2oo, with residence and 4 acres of glebe, in the Ethel Turrall, mistress gift of the , and held since 1894 by the Railway Station, John Richard Gray, station master Ambrose Miss Bidwell John, shopkeeper, parish, Flack William, Prince Albert P.H

Colborne Rev. Arthur M.A. Vicarage clerk & assistant overseer J Golding .Jonathan, blacksmith Francis Major Wolstan J.P. Mill ho Brown Ellen (Mrs.), fa.rmer Noble William, beer retailer Francis Thomas Musgrave M.A., D.L., Covill Alfred, farmer i P.oters Mrs. Hannah, farmer J.P. Quy hall Darling Joseph, farmer Watts James & Sons, builders COMMERCIAL. Dean Geo. farmer, & White Swan P.H Watts Tom, insurance agent

Bendall John, farmer, Allickv• Fison William, farmer· STRETHAM (including Stretham Fen and the hamlet yearly interest of which is given to the poor of the of Thetford) is a parish in the Isle of Ely, on the banks parish yearly, in kind. Harry William Morgan Willis of the Cam, with a station, I mile north of the village, esq. who is lord of the manor, Messrs. Charles Wright on the Ely, Haddenham, Sutton and St. Ives branch of ,and Mrs. H. J. Lister are the principal landowners. the Great Eastern railway, and is 4 miles south-by-west The soil is stiff clay and fen land; the subsoil is clay. from Ely, 12 north-by-east from Cambridge and 75 from The crops are grain of all descriptions. · The area of the , in the Western division of the county, hundred is 3·997 acres of land and 22 of water; of South , Ely union, petty sessional division rateable value, £7,282 ; the population in I9II was 961 and county court district, and in the rural deanery of in the civil and r,r7o in the ecclesiastical parish. Ely, archdeaconry of Wisbech and diocese of Ely. In Sexton, Bertram Parish. May, 1844• a serious fire occurred here, when a great Post, M. 0. & T. & Telephonic Express Delivery & part of the place was burned. The church of St. James, Telephone Office for Local Calls, Stretham.-Mrs. which stands in the High street, is a fine old building of Rachel Swan, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive through stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chanc~?l, Ely at 7·5 a.m. & 2.50 p.m.; dispatched on mondays clerestoried nave of five bays, aisles, south porch and & thursdays at I & 6.40 p.m. & other days at II.zo a western tower with lofty spire containing a clock and 5 a.m. & 6.40 p.m . • bells; and there is a very fine carved oak screen dating Wall Box, lower end of village, cleared at 10.45 a.m. & from 1440: the organ was enlarged and improved in 6 .30 p.m 1907 by Mr. H. J. Lister: the church was thoroughly restored during the period 1876-87, at a cost of THETFORD is a hamlet, 2 miles north-east. The [4,400, and affords 35o sittings. The registers date chapel of St. George is a building of stone, erected in from the year 1558. The living is a rectory, with the the 14th century, and consisting of chancel, nave, north chapelry of Thetford annexed, joint net yearly value porch and a western turret containing one bell: in 1863 [475, including 496 acres of glebe, with residence, in it was new roofed, the larger portion of the nave rebuHt the gift of the Bishop of Ely, and held since 1906 by and slightly enlarged·, and a porch added : a vestry was the Rev. Samuel Stewart Stitt M.A. of Pembroke built in 1'885: there are 200 sittings. Here is also a College, Cambridge. The parish room at Stretham was Baptist chapel. A of half an acre was formed built in r886, and that at Thetford in 1sa7. There are in 1914; it is under the control of a Burial Board. Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, and a mission hall, Townsend's Charity of £45 yearly for fuel, blankets and erected here in raa4 for the use of the local branch sheeting is for the poor. The area is 1,059 acres of land of the London Evangelistic Mission; it has 400 sit- ?'nd IQ of water; rateable value, [3,979; the population tings. A cemetery of one acre was formed in r886, at m 19II was 209. a cost of [4oo, and is now under the control of the Post Office, Thetford.-Jonathan Utteridge, sub-post- Parish Council. An ancient stone cross, dating from master. Letters arrive through Ely at 7 a.m. ; dis- abont 1400 and restored in 1910, stands on the high road, patched at 6.T5 a.m. & 6.55 p.m. Stretham, abo~t near the church: the base is octagonal and panelled in 2 miles distant, is the nearest money order & tele- quatrefoils: at the top are four niches, with pedestals graph office for images. Charities :-Rysley's Charity was founded. Public Elementary Schools. in 1553 by the Rev· Richard Rysley • rector of Stretham, Stretham, erected in r865, for 208 children; Alfred who left a part of his estate in Upton, Huntingdon- George Wheeler, head master shire, and also 6s. 8d. together with four houses and chi'ldren ,• rights of common, to the poor of Stretham, producing Stretham (infants), built in r895, for no now about £120 yearly; this charity is managed by MrR. Annie Driver, mistress trustees, and distributed in kind; the Digby Charity, Thetford, built in 1872 & since enlarged, for Bo children; producing £I5 I5S. rod. yearly for distribution to the Mrs. Bertha. Yarrow, mistreSIS poor in money, was bequeathed by Martha U1gby in Railway Station, William George Wybrell, station master 1716, and consists of land in the parish of Stretham, Police Cons·table, John Frederick Skoyles also held by trustees; Lady Howard of Effingham's Carriers.-Mrs. Nathan Sennitt, to Ely on thur~.; to Charity,. left in 1720; consists of a sum of £so, the Cambridge on sat. & Lowe, to Ely, daily STRETHAM. Cemetery (Reginald Wesley, clerk v-. Howe Charles William M.B., Ch.B. Lister Mrs. Brook house Parish Council) . Edin., D.P.H.R.C.P. & S.Glas. Parnell J abez, The Haven Curtis Frederick, boot repairer surgeon; attends daily at 12.15 Routledge Alfred Robert (Evangelist) Dimock John, farmer, Manor farm p.m. (except sunday); & at Had- Stitt Rev. Samuel Stew art M.A. (rec- Driver Ann (Mrs.), farmer denham tor),· The Rectory Driver Charles, farmer Hudson W. E. & Sons, smiths Walker John William Driver George, farmer Jacobs Jonathan, cattle dealer Wesley John J .P. Grove house Ell wood George Ebenezer, blacksmith .T a eo bs, Reuber:t, Chequers P .H Wright Charles, Orchard house Fairchild Thomas, farmer .Tacohs Thomas, cattle dealPr & farmPr Wright Miss, Orchard house Gibbons Walter, boot maker Jarmin William, Royal Oak P.H. Hancock Mary (Mrs.), beer retailer Cambridg-e road cmBIERCIAL. . Harris Henry William, shopkeeper Lsngford William, heer retlliler Acred Henry, insurance agent Hazel Charles Langford, farmer Lawrence Thomas, millPr (wind) Bent Richard, farmer Hazel Harry, farmer Leach Sidney, beer retailer Blinch. Mary Ann (Miss), dress maker Hopkins John, poulterer Lowe Edward, carrier Brads'Q.aw Percival, baker Housley Isaiah, engineer, Pumpb!! Lowe William, coal dealer Brown John, farmer j1 engine, Fen \'Iartin John, beer retailer. Ely road Brown William, farmer . Morden Mary Anne (Mrs.), beer retlr