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are lords of the manor. The principal landowners are Post & Postal Order Office. George Falgate, sub-post­ Col, Sir Charles Harvey bart. of Ra.inthorpe Hall : the master. Letters received through Long StJ;'atton Girls' Hospital at N()rwich and Sir Maurice Boileau bart. R.S.O. at 7.15 a..m. & dispatched a.t 6.10 p.m. The of Park. The soil is various ; subsoil, nearest money order office is at Forncett St. Pe.teT & various. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and telegraph office is at , 2 miles distant beans. The area. is 760 acres; rateable value, [937; Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1&15, for too the population in 1901 wa.s 223. children ; average attendance, 55 ; with a small endow­ Parish Clerk, Henry Drake. ment; Miss Plow, mistress Heslop Thomas Hinde 1Blumer, The Falgate Geo. farmer, & post office Moore William Harry, farmer Rectory Falgate Thomas, sen. farmer N ewman Fanny Corbould (Mrs.)",.. Shawe Miss Mary Elizh. (deaconess) Falgate Thomas, jun. farmer householder Harwin William Edward, farmer Salter Alfd. Wm. farmer,Forncett hall. COMMERCIAL. Ludkin Charlotte (Mrs.), householder Salter William Alfred, farmer Alborough Jeremiah, farmer Ludkin Henry John, farmer & land· Spicer Julia (Miss), dress maker Ba.xter Jame11, Chequers P.H owner, Hill farm; & at Forncett St. Spicer Henry Thomas, farmer Brookes David, farmer Peter Thurston John, farmer Coleman.Arthur, coal dealer Mickelburgh William, blacksmith •

FORNCETT ST. PETER is a. village and large 1 every Tuesday, near the station, by Thomas Oranmer,. parish, with a station, one mile north-east from the vil- ' of East Dereham. Gen. Sir Robert John Harvey K.C.B.,. lage, on the Ipswich and Norwich section of the Great K.T.S. by deed dated January ut, 1853, gave £so, the Eastern railway, and is 8 miJes north from Diss, 7 south- interest thereof (now [1 7s. 6d. yearly) to be given to east from and 103 from London, in the poor widows and single women over 6o years of Southern division of the county, Depwade hundred, petty age, and thi11 sum i~ so distributed by the church­ .essional division and union, county court district of Wy- wardens. This is the ~hief manor of the honor, liberty,. mondham, rural deanery of Depwade, archdeaconry of or jurisdiction of the Duke of Norfolk K.G. in this county,. Norfolk and . The Taas stream flows which originally included :our hundreds and 127 parishes,. through the parish. The church of St. Peter is a. small but several of the sub-manors have been sold. Alfred edifice of flint with stone dressings, in the Perpendicular Clayton Cole esq. of 64 Portland place, London W, is­ l!ltyle, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, north porch and lord of the manor. The principal landowners are Sir a fine round embattled western tower containing 5 bells : Maurice Colborne Boileau bart. of Ketteringham Park;: in the church is a curious alabaster tomb of the 15th Col. Sir Oharle8 Harvey bart. of Rainthorpe Hall ; the­ century, supposed to be that of the founder of the church, Very Rev. Dr. Je:x.-Dlake, dean of Wells; Philip Berney­ and there are brasses to the Baxter family dated 14!!4 ~ ... ,1 Ficklin esq. of Hall; the trustees of the late- 1535: the chancel and north aisle retain piscinre, and Thomas Palmer esq. and Lieut.-Col. Clement William t_here is a holy water stoup in the porch: the carved poppy Joseph Unthank, of Intwood Hall. The soil is clay and heads at the ends of the oak benches are rich specimens good mixed soil; subsoil, day and gravel. The chief of 15th century wood carving: there is a memorial win- crops are wheat, barley, betil";s and peas. The area is dow to the Rev. Joseph Bell, formerly curate of this 1,901 acres; rateable value, [3,421; in 1901 the popula,... parish, d. 1854, besides several others: in the chancel is a tion was 543· memorial brass to Charles William, youngest son (d. 26 Parish Clerk, George Meaxs.

May, x882) of the Rev. Williarn Grieve Wilson M.A. rector Post & M. 0. 0. s. B. & A. & r. Offi e. Da 'd F 0 x 1847-96, and a handsome brass corona has been presented ' c Vl ~ .. a memorial by hi late sch 1 friends and om i ns: su~-postmaster. Letters. through R.S.O. s . 00 0 P~. 0 arnve at 8.30 a.m.; dispatched at 5.25 p.m. Lon~ the organ was erected m 1873 at a cost of ~ 10:> ·~ the Stratton is the nearest telegraph office. Wall Letter ehurch was completely restor~d and re-sea~ed m 18:>7 at Boxes cleared at _ p.m .• & one at the railway station, a cost of £t,200• half of which was contnbuted by the 5&55 ' k d Rev. W. G. Wilson M.A. late rector, and has 200 sittings. cleared at 12·3° 6.3o p.m. wee ays only The register dat:>s from the year 1561. The living is a Schools rectory, with Fl.lrncett St. Ma..7 annexed, joint net yearly • value £64o, including 5? ,'\~~Tes (jf glebe and residence, Publi~ Elementary (mixed & infants), erected in 184~ in the gift of the Earl of Effingham, and held since 1902 & enlarged 1894 at a cost of [350 by public l!lubscrip- by the Rev. John Edward. Cooper M.A. late Fellow of St. tiun, for 86 children; average attendance, 6o; the school John's College, Cambridge. The Baptist chapel at Forn- is endowed with £4 12s. yearly; Miss Rosa M. Woods.,. cett End, erected in 1754, and restored in 1875, will seat mistress xso persons, and has a burial ground attached: the Police Station, John Royal, constable Primitive Methodist chapel, also at Forncett End, is a Rail"\\ ay Station, Edward Phipps Friend, station master large structure of red brick, erected in 1865, and has Carrier to :Ko:·wich. William Knott, mon. wed. & sat". llbout 300 l!littings. A repository sale for cattle is held returning same days .Bentley Rev. Thomas Jackson B.A. Dunthorne Hen1"f, farmer Mears George, parish clerk (curate) English Mary (Mrs.),shpkpr.&beer ret Mickleburgh Robert~ blacksmith, . Cooper Alfred Henry, The Grove Fox David, grocer & draper, Post oti Moore William, farmer Cooper Rev. Jn. Edwd.M.A..TheRectry Frost George, farmer Rush Richard, fishmoDger Fitz Adam Hardesty Herbert, farmer Scott James, Trowel & Hammer P.H" Lawson Rev. Wm. H. (Prim. Meth) Humphreys Chellis, farmer & brick- Self Charles A. farmer & assistant Nicholson John, Hill house layer overseer & rate collector, Sandpit fllb COYMERCIAL. Humphreys James, baker & confectnr Smith Bertie, butcher Andrews .Abraham, farmer & dea~r Hunt William, poultry dealer Tann M. & Son, grocers & drapers (cattl"~ Keeler Lemon, Sa.fety Valve inn & Tooley Mary (Mrs.), farmer Barrett John, farmer, Bustard's Gm coal merchant & farmer Tyler Frederick, farmer Bean Jl.lhn, farmer Keeler Waiter, farmer, dairy farm Uttdng Samuel, engine driver Bilham John, farmer Knights Judith (Mrs.), miller (wind) Walpole James, farmer Brown Robert, farmer & beer retailer Walpole John, farmer Chapman Gerard John, farmer Knott William, farmer & carrier, Ward John, farmer Coleman Elija·h, farmer Chestnut farm Waters John, farmer Cranmer Thomas, auctioneer & valuer Ludkin Henry John, miller (steam), Watling William, fatmer Dixon George, jnn. blacksmith farmer & manure agent FOULDEN (or Fouldon) is a parish and scattered vil- which a bell is attached; a portion of the stone newel' !age, separated from Northwold by the river Wissey, 5! staircase which led to the belfry, now in great part over­ miles east from Stoke Ferry terminal station on a branch hung with ivy, still remains : there are 300 sittings. The­ of the Great Eastern railway, 8 south-west from Swat!- register dates from the year 1538. The living is a dis· ham and 8 north from Brandon, in the South Western charged vicarage, annexed to the rectory of Oxborongh, division of the county, South Greenhoe hundred and petty joint net yearly value [315, including 52 acres of glebe,. sessional division, Swaffham union and county court dis- 1 in the gift of Caius College, C1lmbridge, and held since

.trict, rural deanery of Cranwich (southern division), arch- I 1885 by the Rev. William Henry Brown M.A. formerly dPaconry of Lynn and diocese of Norwich. The church I fellow of that college, who is also incumbent of the· of All Saints, which stands in the western part of the sinecure rectory of Caldicote, and resides at Oxborough; .Tillage, is a building of flint and stone in the Early the Rev. Rupert Turner, of St. Bees, has been curate-in­ English style, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles, north charge since 1888. There are Wesleyan Methodist and and south porches and one side of the ruined tower, to Primitive Methodist chapels. The charities amount to