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Mr. John Emery Hill are the principal landowners. The Chairman of the Board of Guardians, A. G. Copeman. ·­ soil is loam and clay; subsoil, clay and gravel. The lodge, chief crops are wheat, barley and turnips. The decayed Clerk to the Guardians & Asse11sment Committee, Waiter­ parish of Bittering :Magna was divided many years ago John Barton, Guildhall, East between this parish and , one-third being added Assistant Clerk, Arthur E. Whitby, 14 Cemetery road... to and the remainder to Beetley. The area East Dereham is ~,647 acres; rateable value, [3,049; the population Treasurer, Henry Birkbeck, in 1911 was 654, inclusive of 12 officers and 107 inmates Collectors to the Guardians & Relieving Officers :-Elm- - in union workhouse. ham district, W. H. Babbage, ; Mit­ Parish Clerk, Thomas Freezer. ford district, Fredk. Laws, 14 Crown rd. Ea. Dereham Post, M. 0. & T. Office.-Miss Ella P. Tye, sub-post­ Collectors of Poor Rates, Mrs. Wray ~ F. Roddick, - mistress. Letters arrive from Dereham at 7 a.m. & Wellington road, Dereham 12 noon; dispatched at 8.55 & 11.50 a.m. & 6.10 Vaccination Officers, Frederick Laws, Crown road, East· p.m. on week days; on sundays, arrive at 7 a.m. & Dereham; W. H. Babbage, North Elmham; Henry: di~;patched at g.1o a.m Purdy, & Ernest A. Emms, 16 Theatre street •• Wall Letter Box, High house, cleared at 7-15 & 11.45 East Dereham a.m. & 6 p.m.; sundays, 8.30 a.m Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators :- district;.. Pillar Letter Box, Hall farm, cleared at 8.15 a.m. & Edward Watson Palin M.R.C .. S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. 12.25 & 6.35 p.m. ; sundays, g.15 a.m ; East Dereham district, Davy Turner Beld­ Wall Letter Box, Mill, cleared at 8.45 & II a.m. & 6.50 ing M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. Quebec road, East p.m. ; sundays, I r.so a. m Dereham; Gressenhall district, John Kitton Howlett. Public Elementary School (boys & l,!'irls), erected in L.R.C.P. & S.Edin. Beechurst, Commercial rd. East. 1842, at the expense of the late John David Hay-Hill Dereham; district, Richard Nicolson High-­ esq. J .P. for I02 children; average attendance, 64; moor M.B.Edin. ; district,Ernest. Miss Gertrude Guthrie Forbes, mistress William James M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. Ring­ MITFORD & LAUNDITCH RURAL DISTRICT ham; Litcham district, Richard Nicolson Highmoor· COUNCIL. M.B.Edin. Litcham; district, William Hy. Meets at the Workhouse, Gressenb.all, on monday Griffith-Williams L.R.C.P. & S.Edin.Mattishall; Nortll' Elmham district, Arthur Richard Rackh&m M.R.C.S. monthly, alternately at 10 a.m. & 1 p.m. Eng., L.R.C.P.Edin. Elmham; districtp Chairman, A.G. Copeman, Little Dunham ldg.Swaffham Thomas Gibson M.R.C.S.Eng,, L.R.C.P.Lond. Ship­ Clerk, Waiter John Barton, Guildhall, East Dereham dham; district, Edward V. Perry M.R.C.S. Treasurer, Henry Birkbeck, Norwich Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. Reepham Medical Officer of Health,Davy Turner Belding M.R.C. S. Workhouse, Gressenhall, a structure of brick, available Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. Quebec road, East Dereham for 500 inmates; George Storey, master; Rev. Johnn Surveyor, Philip Thos. Brown, King's road, East DP.rehm G. Lambert M.A. chaplain; Victor John Duigan, Sanitary Inspector, Robert Read, Westfield road, East M.R.C.S.Eng. medical officer; Mrs. Storey, matron. Dereham MITFORD & LAUNDITCH UNION. REGISTRATION DISTRICT. Board day, alternate mon. at the Workhouse, Gressenhall. Superintendent Registrar, Waiter John Barton, Guild-- The union comprises the following parishes :-, hall, East Dereham; deputy, Charles Thoma~ Bartonp . • , Beetley, Billingford, Bilney Guildhall, East Dereham (East), , , , Colkirk, , Registrars of Births & Deaths :-Bawdeswell sub-di!- Dereham (East), Dunham (Great), Dunham (Little), trict, Edward Street, Bawdeswell; deputy, E. Payne,. Elmham (North), , Foxley, Fransham (Great), Foxley; East Dereham !Ub-district, Arthur E. Whitby, Fransham (Little), , , Gressenhall, L~ Cemetery road, East Dereham; deputy, Ernest A. , Hardingham, , Hoe, , Emms, 16 Theatre street, East Dereham; North Elm-· Kemp~ton, Letton, (East), Lexham (We~t), ham sub-district, W. H. Babbage, North Elmham ;. Litcham, , Lyng, Mattishall, Mattishall Burgh, deputy, Mrs. Bahha2'e, North Elmham; Litcham 1mb- , Oxwick with Pattesley, , Roug- district, J. P. R. Royle, Litcham; deputy, George- harn, , Shipdham, Southburgh, Sparham, G. Wagg, Litcham; Mattishall sub-district, W. H. Stanfield, , , , Griffith-Williams, Mattishall; deputy, Mrs. E. G- Tuddenham (East), Tuddenham (North), Twvford, Williams, Mattishall; Shipdham sub-district, Wm. , Weasenham St. Peter's, Wel- Henry Tench, Shipdham; deputy, Albert E. Amirsp lingham, Wendling, Westfield, Whinbergh, Whissort- Shipdham sett, Woodrising, Worthing, . The population Registrar of Marriages, Arthur E. Whitby, I4 Cemetery in Igii, 24,427; area of the union, w6,gn acres; rate- road, East Dereham; deputy, Ernest A. Emms, rQ.. able value at Lady Day, 1912, .£'128,821 Theatre street, East Dereham PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Dunham John, White Swan P.H Long William, farmer Brown Miss A. M. Elmham road Gapp Herbert William, farmer & Melton John, farmer, High House frm~ Daniel Thomas Drowne Francis J.P. landowner, Bushy common Milk David Wm. frmr. Sparrow farm Woodlands Gilbert Butler, farmer, Spring farm Myhill James, farmer, Alps Hall Rev. Percy Edmun.d M.A. (rec- Goward George, beer retailer Oakley Alfred, horse slaughterer to1·), Manor house Gunton John Percy, farmer, Vale frm Raven Robert, farmer Hare Sir George Ralph Leigh hart. Barman Geo. wheelwright & farmer Robinson William, farmer D.L., J.P. Gressenhall house Hill Bertie, steward to Sir George Stammers H. C. & Co. millers Rix James Ashley, Bushey house Ralph Leigh Hare hart. D.L., J.P. (water & steam), Chapel mills Stammers Herbt. Chapman, Mill ho Hall farm Storey George, master of workhouse- Stedman Mrs. Wood hill Hill John Emery, farmer & land- Swann Cornelius Picton, farmer Ward Mrs. Rectory owner, Park farm Tuck John, vermin destroyer COMMERCIAL. Holman George, wheelwright Tunney Elizh. (Mrs.), Royal Oak P.H' Alpe John, cattle dealer Kenny Robert, beer retailer Tye Dennis, farmer, assistant over- Ayers Henry, farmer Larwood Jesse, farmr. Wood Hill frm seer & tax collector, Union farm Bunning Robert, blacksmith . Leeds George, farmer Tye Ella Pleasance (Miss), grocer &. Crown Ell en (Mrs.), farmer 'Linford John William, Three Horse draper, Post- office Crown John, blacksmith Shoe.~ P.H GRIMSTON is an extensive parish of scattered houses, window carefully restored at the expense of the Rev-­ ri miles east from the Grimston Road station on the Mid­ J. Fowler M . .A.. rector I883-1902: a new organ was land and Great Northern joint railway, Ioo from London also erected at a cost of about £2oo, partly defrayed i and 7 east from Lynn, in the North Western division of by public subscription; and in 1895-6 the nave roof the county, Freebridge Lynn hundred, petty sessional divi­ was restored, the whole of the windows re glazed and' sion aJJ.d union, Lynn county court district, rural deanery a carved oak font-cover presented by the rector and' of Lynn (Norfolk), archdeaconry of Lynn and diocese of Mrs. Fowler, in memory of her brother, T. A. Bodley - Norwich. The church of St. Botolph is a spacious edifice M.A. of Queens' Collel,!'e, Cambridge~ the oak lectern of flint and stone in the Early English, Decorated and Per­ was placed in the church in 1904 in memory of the~ pendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, Rev. John Fowler :\LA. rector 1883-IQ02: there are transepts, south porch and a lofty embattled western tower soo sittings, 375 being free. In the churchyard is an.. with pinnacles, containing 6 bells and a clock presented iron anvil serving as a headstone to the grave of a de--­ by the rector in 1887: there is one stained window: ceased blacksmith. The register dates from the yea:r.- in 18 Bg the chancel roof was raised to its original pitch 1552. The living is a rectory, net yearly value [3oo~ and the sedilia, two fine niches and the tracery {)f the east arising from 62o acres of glebe, with residence, in the gin'