SWAFFHAM is a handsome market-town, and the principal place of election of knights of the shire for the western division of Norfolk, on the Lynn and Dereham branch of the Great Eastern Railway, which has a station here. Swaffham Station is 14 miles from Lynn and 12 from East Dereham. The Watton and Thetford line forms a junction here. Watton is 9½ miles, and Thetford 22½ miles, where it joins the main line from Norwich to London (viâ Cambridge). The Thetford branch was opened for passengers October 1869. Swaffham gives name to a large union, county court district, and polling district, and is in South Greenhoe hundred and petty sessional division, Lynn bankruptcy district, West division of the county, North Cranwich rural deanery, and Norfolk archdeaconry. It is situated 15 miles E.S.E. of Lynn. It holds a pleasant situation on the crown of an eminence, whose gradually swelling acclivities, for a circuit of nearly two miles are occupied by fertile and well-wooded enclosures. It had 3643 inhabitants in 1881, and comprises 7550 acres. The rateable value is £15,664. The town is considered by the faculty as peculiarly salubrious; and in proof of this opinion some instances of great longevity have been adduced, among which, it is said, the united ages of four persons, who died here in 1798, amounted to 355 years; and those of eleven, who died in 1799, amounted to 890 years; to which we may add Mrs. Cross, who died here in 1816, aged 100 years; the Rev. William Yonge, M.A., chancellor of the diocese, who was vicar here for 65 years, and died in 1844, aged nearly 92; and Betty Ward, who died in 1864, aged 94. It has been styled the Montpelier of England; but for asthmatic and consumptive patients, the air has often been found too keen and penetrating. On November 19, 1775, 24 houses were destroyed by a fire. The town has considerably improved since the establishment of the local Board of Health; and it now has many large and handsome houses, and a noble church, shaded by a fine avenue of lime trees. It is well lighted with gas from works established, in 1840, by a company of shareholders at a cost of about £1800; but owing to the town being situate on a chalky hill, with about 20 feet of alluvial drift gravel and clay near the surface, the only supply of water, except from rain, was, until 1865, obtained from a number of draw-wells, some of which have been sunk to a depth of nearly 200 feet, at great expense. In 1865 the Swaffham Waterworks Company, Limited, with a capital of £2500, was started, who sank a well about 200 feet, with large chambers at the bottom, and pumped the water from it into a tank, at the top of a tower of the height of 45 feet, standing on the highest part of the town, and have since given the town a constant supply of water at high pressure. The springs would readily supply water for a town double or treble the size. The streets are open and well built, and branch in various directions from a spacious Market-place, which is lined with good shops, inns, &c. and has in its centre an elegant market cross, erected by the Earl of Orford in 1783, and consisting of a peristyle of circular columns, supporting a dome covered with lead, and terminated by a statue of Ceres. The Market, held every Saturday, is toll-free, but is now of little importance. Three large fairs for cattle, sheep, &c. are held yearly on the second Wednesday in May, the third Wednesday in July, and the first Wednesday in November. Swaffham had a market before the reign of King John, and Henry III. granted it two weekly fairs. The Corn Hall, in the Market-place, is a handsome building of red and white brick, with stone dressings, in the Italian style, and was erected in 1858 at a cost of £1800, raised in £5 shares. The ground-floor is occupied by a subscription billiard-room, and a young men's institute, reading-room, and library. The large upper room is occasionally let for lectures, concerts, &c. On the west side of the Market Hill is the Assembly Room, erected in 1817, 60 feet by 30 feet, and 20 feet in height, and the flooring is flexible for the benefit of dancers.
SWAFFHAM PARISH has increased its population from 2220 in 1801 to 3643 in 1881, and comprises, as noticed above, 7750 acres of land. All the population and buildings are in the town and its immediate suburbs, except for a few scattered farmhouses, the most distant of which are Great and Little Friars' Thorns, nearly 2 miles W., adjoining the heath, which is now mostly enclosed. The soil and buildings belong a number of copyholders and freeholders, the largest of whom, Richard Horace Hamond, Esq. and Thomas Astley Horace Hammond, Esq. are lords of the manor of Swaffham Market, which comprises more than nine-tenths of the parish, and for which T. G. Archer, Esq., of Lynn, is steward. The manor was anciently held by the Earls of Richmond, who had a prison here. Being a 'franchise' (like North Pickenham, Narford, Palgrave, Foulden, Great Cressingham, &c.), its inhabitants were exempt from serving on juries, except in their own parishes; also 'free from the payment of toll, and from contribution to the expenses of knights of Parliament,' unless they held lands and tenements in other manors, for which they may be put on juries at the assizes. From a verdict of the manor court, in 1620, it appears ' that the freeholders hold the manor by socage, fealty, and free-rent, and pay for the free-rent 4d. an acre; for every acre of copyhold, 3d., and every messuage, 9d.; that the copyholders may make leases of their estates for 21 years, without license of the lord, paying on admittance 2d. per acre.' Sir Edward Coke farmed this manor of Charles I.; and from him it passed to the Barkhams and the Yallops. One of the latter took the name of Spelman. The fines are all certain, as stated above, except on the Market Hill, where arbitrary fines are levied. The custom of the manor is to the eldest son. By the award of the Enclosure Commissioners, dated June 18, 1869, all the extensive heaths and common lands, about 2500 acres, as well as about 2000 acres of the enclosed lands, which were liable to be fed all winter, being what is called Lammas or half-year lands, were enclosed, and allotments made to each owner of property, the lord of the manor having 1465 acres granted him. The other manor, called Hasfalls and Whitsands, is of small extent, comprising only about 100 acres of enclosed land, called the Town Estate, with common right over all the heath, as afterwards noticed. About half a mile west of the town, near the Lynn road, is a place anciently called Guthlac's Stow, from a chapel which stood there, dedicated to St. Guthlac, but now commonly called Goodluck's Closes. At Friars' Thorns, about a mile further to the west, upon a high hill, stood a small priory cell, belonging to the monks of Sawtry, being a resting-place for pilgrims in their progress from Canterbury to Walsingham Priory.
The CHURCH (St. Peter and St. Paul) is a large and handsome pile of freestone, brick, and flint, partly in the Decorated style, and is in the form of a cross, having a chancel, nave, aisles, transepts, and a lofty and well-proportioned octagonal tower, dying off in polygonal, and terminated by enriched embrasures and purfled pinnacles, and containing eight musical bells and a good clock. The nave is very lofty, having twenty-six clerestory windows; and its inner roof is ornamented with a profusion of carved wooden figures of angels, &c., and supported by slender clustered pillars, from which spring fourteen pointed arches, seven on each side. In the windows are some remains of ancient stained glass, supposed to represent the benefactors who contributed towards rebuilding the church in the time of Edward IV. The north side and the tower are said by tradition to have been built by John Chapman, a tinker, of this town, who dreamt that if he went to London Bridge he would hear news greatly to his advantage; and having gone thither, he was, after walking about for some hours, accosted by a man, who asked him what he wanted: to which he replied that he had come there on the vain errand of a dream: and the man answered, 'Alas, good friend! if I had heeded dreams, I might have proved myself as very a fool as thou hast; for 'tis not long since I dreamt that at a place called Swaffham, in Norfolk, dwells John Chapman, a pedlar, who hath a tree at the back of his house, under which is buried a pot of money.' On hearing this, the tinker hastened home, dug under the tree, found a large brass pot full of money and inscribed, 'Under me doth lie another much richer than I;' but being in Latin, it was some time before the tinker discovered the meaning, after which he dug deeper, and found a much larger pot filled with old coin. The inhabitants, soon afterwards, determined to rebuild the church, and the tinker offered to defray the expense of rebuilding the north aisle and the tower. That a wealthy parishioner, called John Chapman, was churchwarden in 1462, and founded the north aisle, is evident from an ancient register, called the 'Black Book.' The story of his dream, and of his having been a pedlar or tinker, may have arisen from the rebuses on his name, carved on his seat in the north aisle, representing a pedlar or chapman,* with his pack, and his wife looking over the door of a shop. This seat and many other carved seats were removed many years ago, when the nave and aisles were repewed. The carved fragments of these ancient stalls and seats now form a patched piece of work in the chapel of the north transept, commonly called the tinker's seat, and still exhibiting small figures of a pedlar, with his pack, his wife, and his dog; but the latter being muzzled, and having a chain running across his head, is more probably intended for a bear. Among the monuments is an altar-tomb, with the effigy of John Botewright, D.D., who was master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, chaplain to Henry VI., and vicar of this church when it was rebuilt. His office, faith, and name are shown by rebuses on four shields. The vestry contains some ancient armour and a library of books, chiefly presented by the Spelmans, of Narborough. Seven Guilds, or fraternities for religious, commercial, convivial, and benevolent purposes, had formerly altars in this church, dedicated to the Ascension, St. Nicholas, St. Peter, St. Helen, St. John the Baptist, St. Thomas-a-Becket, and the Holy Trinity; but very little is known of them except their names, though each had probably a hall or meeting-house in the town. During the last thirty years the church has been restored, and considerably improved. The first restoration, in which about £1600 was expended, was begun in 1852, when the unsightly pews were replaced by open sittings with handsomely carved poppy-heads. In 1853 the east window was filled with stained glass, executed by Wailes, representing the Resurrection, at a cost of £400, bequeathed by the late Miss Ella Moore. A further restoration was made in 1876; the galleries were removed, new seats were introduced into the south transept, and the chancel was rearranged. A new eagle lectern in carved oak was also added. A new reredos was given by H. Day, Esq. and three memorial windows of painted glass have been added to the church: one in the south transept to the memory of the Day family; one on the south side of the chancel to the memory of Miss Yarington; and one on the north side, the gift of the parishioners, in memory of three of the vicar's family. A very fine new organ, built by Bishop & Son, occupies a prominent place in the north transept. The vicarage, valued in K.B. at £14 8s.10d.;, and now at £543, is in the patronage of the Bishop of Norwich, and incumbency of the Rev. George Robert Winter, M.A., and rural dean, who has 36 acres of glebe, and a spacious brick residence, erected in 1846. The tithes of Swaffham parish were commuted in 1840 for yearly rent-charges of £543 17s. 6d. to the vicar; and £1143 12s. to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, the appropriators of the rectory, which is held on lease by the lords of the manor. Here are about 113 acres of rectorial glebe. The fine avenue of lime trees in the churchyard (eighteen on each side) were planted in the early part of the last century, by William Fortin. The Revs. A. R. Gwynedd, M.A., and B. G. Smith, B.A., are the curates. A Church Mission Room was built at the Lower Pool by the late Miss Day in 1874, in which occasional services are held.
CHAPELS.— The Baptist Chapel, in Castleacre Street, is a brick building in the Italian style, erected in 1859 at a cost of £1300; new galleries were erected in 1880 to accommodate 300 persons, at a cost of about £400. It is under the ministry of the Rev. J. S. Wyard. The Wesleyan Chapel, in London Street, was built in 1813, at a cost of £950; and the Primitive Methodist Chapel, in Lynn Street, was erected in 1853.
Through the instrumentality of the vicar, a few friends opened a Coffee Tavern in the Market-place, with good sleeping accommodation and stabling.
HAMOND'S SCHOOL, in the green croft called the Camping Ground, consists of a good house, built in 1736, at a cost of £500, left by Nicholas Hamond, in 1724, together with £500 for its endowment. The latter sum was laid out in the purchase of £800 New South Sea Annuities, the yearly dividends of which (£22) are paid to the master; but there are now no free boys, and the school is now a Middle Class School. NATIONAL SCHOOLS were built on the Camping Grounds in 1838, and these have recently been enlarged, with class-rooms added to meet the requirements of the Education Department, and a handsome infant school has been built. The schools, which are supported by voluntary subscriptions, will accommodate 630 children, the average attendance being about 350.
The SAVINGS BANK, in Mangate Street, has deposits amounting to about £27,000, belonging to over 500 depositors, and 20 charitable and 13 friendly societies, and 2 penny banks.
The COUNTY PRISON at Swaffham has been discontinued under the Prisons Act, and was pulled down in 1881; and new quarters for the constables, with a house for the superintendent, have been erected on part of the site. The COUNTY POLICE STATION is in London Street, and was built in 1848 and enlarged in 1859. It contains residences for the superintendent and two constables, and two cells for the temporary confinement of prisoners. The SHIRE HALL is a handsome building, which was erected in 1839, at a cost of £2200, in the Grecian and Italian styles. Adjourned Quarter Sessions are held here at the usual periods, and Petty Sessions every Monday, for the South Greenhoe divisions (see page 34). Saye House, the residence of the Rev. B. Houchen, J.P; the office of the Clerk to the Magistrates; and the Superintendent's house, are occasional court-houses under the Criminal Justices Act. The magistrates usually attending are W. M. R. Haggard, Esq., E. A. Applewhaite, Esq., J. T. Mills, Esq., H. S. Adlington, Esq., W. A. Tyssen Amherst, Esq., M.P., Rev. H. Milne, Rev. B. Houchen, A. C. Fountaine, Esq., and R. H. Mason, Esq. Mr. Robert Sewell is clerk.
SWAFFHAM COUNTY COURT DISTRICT comprises the parishes, &c. enumerated on page 41, and is in King's Lynn bankruptcy court district. Courts are held at the Shire Hall, bi-monthly; and the county court office is in the Market-place. Edwin Plumer Price, Esq., Q.C. is judge; Thos. Bennett, Esq., deputy judge; A. J. Winter, Esq., registrar; John H. Scott Durbin, Esq., high bailiff; Mr. Fredk. W. Johnson, clerk; and Mr. John Green, bailiff.
SWAFFHAM UNION comprises 24 parishes, and in 1881 had a population of 12,859. Their average annual expenditure on the poor, during the three years ending March 1835, was £12,089; for the succeeding three years, £8724; and it is now about £8000. The Union Workhouse, at Swaffham, was built in 1836, at a cost of £5425, and has room for 400 paupers; but it had only 48 paupers when the census was taken in 1881. Robert Sewell, Esq. is union clerk and superintendent registrar; Mr. Charles S. Johnston, registrar of marriages; George Walker, relieving officer and registrar of births and deaths; the Rev, B. Houchen, M.A., is chaplain; Mr. F. J. Thomas, surgeon; Mr. Walter Mead, master; Mrs. Martha Mead, matron of the Workhouse, and James Rivett, porter.
The following table shows the population (in 1881) and area of each parish in the union, with its rateable value:—
The TOWN ESTATE, comprising the manor of Hasfalls and Whitsands, belonged to the dissolved chantry of Simon Blake, and was granted by Edward VI., in 1549, in consideration of £126 2s. 1d. (town's money), to twelve trustees, to be elected yearly by the churchwardens and other parishioners, upon trust that the rents and profits thereof should be applied yearly for the relief of the poor, the reparation of the highways and town wells, and the payment of all other common charges in the parish. The estate formerly consisted of a farm of 99A. 1R. 14P. of land, with a sheep-walk over 316 acres of heath, and 220 acres of half-year lands. The tenant had the privilege of turning such neat cattle as he can summer upon all the heath and half-year lands in the parish. Quarterly sums of 1s. 6d. were distributed among nine poor widows, under the name of the King's Alms, pursuant tot he deed of 1549. The churchwardens and the twelve trustees, or Town Guardians, carry to the same account £19 2s. per annum, arising as follows:— £3 from the Camping Ground, left by the Rev. John Botewright, D.D., in 1475, for the use of the church, and as a place for all the parishioners to exercise in archery, military discipline, and other proper games; £3 from 2A. 3R. 30P. of land at Pickenham, given by an unknown donor; and £4 2s. arising from the gifts or bequests of Edward Bayfield, in 1729; C. and W. Rodwell, in 1775; Mary Machin, in 1675; one Wentland, at an unknown date; Rose Case, in 1711, and an unknown donor. Four houses and other buildings, and small plots of land, were given by William and Susan Bedingfeld in 1671, and Helen Johnson in 1675. A shop and stall in the Market Place, left to the poor by Nicholas Hamond in 1724, were burnt down in 1800. Two tenements in Lynn Street, given by Thomas Theodricke in 1723, and four tenements in the Greenway, given by Ann Brett in 1807, in exchange for an old almshouse, are occupied rent-free by poor families. By the inclosure award in 1869, 325 acres of land were allotted to the trustees in lieu of the previous lands and the rights over the heath. By a new scheme of the Charity Commissioners, dated July 24, 1866, the income of the estate was to be, subject to paying the King's Alms, divided as follows:— £100 a year to supply the poor with water; £35 a year for the maintenance of the fabric of the church; and £25 a year tot he cost of the church services; and the residue, until it amounted to £60, for the repairs of the footways in and about the town; any surplus income, after providing these sums, being added rateably to these amounts. The estate was mortgaged in 1860 to raise about £900, to pay the costs of the inclosure and to build substantial farm premises. It was let, October 10, 1881, for a rent of £305 a year, and £12 for sporting. The income provided a total of £220 a year for the charities until 1881, and also paid off the whole of the principal and interest on the mortgage. The cottagers holding under a rent of £5 a year have been supplied with water free, being paid for by the charity trustees, and also distributions of coal have been made in severe winters out of the £100 and its accumulations prior to the scheme coming into operation. The side-walks have been paved out of the £60 a year. The farm this year has been let, by auction, for a rent of £190 a year, so that the share applicable to paving the town will for the future be very much reduced. These properties, with the exception of the almshouses, were a few years ago sold under an order of the Charity Commissioners. The produce of the sale was invested in two sums, Consols, producing annually £35 1s. 2d. and £3 8s., which are applied in the same manner as the rents of the houses were.
The POST, MONEY ORDER, SAVINGS BANK, GOVERNMENT INSURANCE, and TELEGRAPH OFFICE is at Market Place; Mr. Thomas Johnson, postmaster. Letters from London, per mail cart, viâ Brandon Station, arrive a 2.48 a.m. and at 1.10 p.m., except Sundays. There are two deliveries, at 7 a.m. and 1.50 p.m. The first despatch is at 10.15 a.m., the second is at 8 p.m. Wall Letter-Box, Station Street, cleared at 7.50 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Sundays 2.30 p.m. Wall Letter-Box, London Street, is cleared at 9 a.m. and 7 p.m., weekdays only. Mail carts leave for Brandon at 9.15 p.m., Castle Acre, Rougham, Weasenham, St. Peter, South Rainham, West Rainham, and Helhoughton, at 4.30 a.m., and return at 8.20 p.m.; for Sporle, Little Dunham, Great Dunham, and Litcham, at 4.45 a.m., and return at 7.45 p.m.
Aldiss Mrs Ann Doughty, White Hart lane
Aldiss John, draper, hosier, and milliner, Market place
Allen Timothy, tailor and shopkeeper, Castle Acre street
Alpe Frederick, practical brewer, White Hart lane
Alpe James, saddler and harness maker, agent to the Accident Insurance Co. Market place
Alpe Robert, brewery manager, White Hart lane
Arnold Henry, grocer, draper, wine merchant,
agent to the Scottish Provincial Assurance Co. Market place
Aspland James, tin plate worker, White Hart lane
Assembly Rooms, Market place; Mrs. Lowe, lessee
Bacon Miss Annie, dressmaker, London street
Balders Edward William, secretary to the Savings Bank, Market place
Balding Miss Susan, Russell court, Pickenham road
Banner —, stonemason, London street
Barber John, solicitor's managing clerk,
agt, to the Ocean, Railway, & General Accident Assurance, & Staffordshire Fire Insurance. Cos.
col. to the Water Works Co. Lynn St
Barker Mrs Mary, laundress, Lynn street
Barnes William, miller and corn factor, Mangate street
Barrett James, town crier and bill poster, Lynn street
Bartholomew William, vict. The George (& posting), and inland revenue officer, Market place
Bayfield Henry James, butcher, Market place
Bell Fredk. Robinson, chemist and dentist, Market place
Blanchflower Mr James, London street
Bone William, watchmaker and jeweller, Mangate street
Brett Peter, beerhouse, Lynn street
Brown Arthur Mavor (B. & Gardner), and stamp distribtr.
agt. to the Royal Farmers' Fire and Life Insurance Co, Market place
Brown Mrs Eliza & Sons (Wm. & Walter), bakers, London st
Brown & Gardner, booksellers, printers, statnrs. chemists and druggists,
wine & spirit merchts. and tobacconists, Market place
Browne Colville, A.R.I.B.A. architect, The Paddocks
Bulling James Blomfield, farmer, Norwich road
Bunting Geo. & Co. drapers, grocers, tailors, dressmakers, outfitters, general house furnishers,
agents to the Patent Air-tight Metallic Coffin Co. Market place
Bunting Geo. draper, &c. (& Co.) agent to the Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Co.
Market place
Burroughs George, grocer, china dealer, & dealer in royal daylight petroleum, Lynn street
Burton Thomas, beerhouse and dealer in firewood, Market place
Cadge Robert, wheelwright, Camping land
Carr Jabez, coachmaker and jeweller, Market place
Carter Thomas, carpenter and joiner, Lynn street
Case Frederick, veterinary surgeon, M.R.C,V.S. London,
inspector under the Privy Council for the hundreds of South Greenhoe and Wayland, Market place
Chatten John, cabinet maker and upholsterer, Market place
Clark George. farmer, Wood farm
Clarke Edward & Son (John), engineers and agricultural machine mkrs.
thrashing and traction engine machine proprs. Prince of Wales road; h Lynn road
Clarke Mr. Thomas, Pool road, Station street
Coe Jacob, clerk, Providence terrace, Station street
Coe Mrs Martha, 1 Providence terrace, Station street
Coe William Robert, clerk and traveller, London street
Coffee Tavern; John & Mrs Emily Hill, mgrs. Market pl
Complin Youngs, boot & shoe maker, London street
Cooper George, joiner and builder, Lynn street
Cooper Mr William, Watton road
Copland John, surveyor, collector, & inspector of nuisances to the Local Board, Camping land
Cork Robert, tailor (Powley & C.), Market place
Corn Exchange Co.; W. G. Winearts, sec. Castle Acre st
Cory Mrs Martha, baker, Lynn street
County Court Office; A. J. Winter, registrar; F. W. Johnson, clerk, Market place
Cox Mrs Sarah Ann, Lynn street
Cross Joseph, farmer, Copper hall, White Hart lane
Crowforth George Warren, agent to Prudential Assurance Co. Mangate street
Dawes John, victualler, Norfolk Hero, Station street
Dawson Albert William, tailor, London street
Day Herbert William, Esq. county treasurer, Castle Acre st
Day The Misses Sophia, Caroline & Augusta, Market pl
Dickerson George, vict. and farmer, Market place
Dickerson Fredk. vict. Red Lion (& posting-hse.), Market place
Dickerson Golden, foreman, London street
Driver James, carpenter and builder, Lynn street
Drury Chas. John, head mastr. Grammar School, Camping land
Dunger George, horses and traps on hire, White Hart lane
Dutchman Durrant, farmer, Lynn street
Easthough Chas. Saml. statn. mstr. railway statn. Station st
Edwards Rev. Arthur (Primitive Methodist), Princes road
Ellis Mrs Sarah, victualler, Swan, Castle Acre street
Elvin Thos. coach builder, London rd.; & at East Dereham
Emerson Robert Nelson, surgeon, L.S.A. Eng. Mangate st
Everett Frederick, merchant (Vynne & E.), Station street
Fayers Thomas & William Henry, bakers, Market place
Fisher Mrs Emily, Albert terrace
Finch Jacob (J. & H. Y. Finch), and farmer, Narford; h Market place
Finch J. & H. Y. chemical manure merchants, Railway station;
and at Cook's wharf, Lynn
Forster Mr Thomas, Market place
Foresters' Hall, Castle Acre st.; Fredk. Wm. Johnson, sec
Fuller James, farmer, Cupid's bower, Norwich road
Gainsbury Mr John, Dovehouse row, Norwich road
Gardner John Arthur (G. & Brown), Market place
Gardner & Brown, brewers, maltsters, and wine and spirit merchants,
Swaffham family brewery, Market place
Garner Mrs Lydia, beerhouse, Lynn street
Garner Mr William (exors. of), Ash Close
Garnet Elizabeth, victualler, Maid's Head, Market place
Gas Works, Lynn street; E. W. Balders, mngr. & collctr.
Goddard Mrs Eleanor, 17 Providence terrace, Station st
Goddard Wm. Geo. stonemason, Russell ct. Pickenham rd
Gooderson Wm. vict. White Hart Inn, & tailor, Market pl
Goold Thos. horse dlr. and breaker, Crown hs. Market pl
Goold William, printer, bookseller, stationer, bookbinder and newsagent,
toy, fancy and music depot, agent for British and Foreign Bible Society,
Swaffham Magazine Club, Market place
Grammar School; Chas. John Drury, mstr. Camping land
Graves William, hawker and general dealer, London st
Green George, grocer and provision dealer,
agent to the Midland Insurance Company, London street
Green Robt. bellhngr. & lcksmth. Pratt's yd. Castle Acre st
Green Thos. nurseryman, seedsman and florist, Swaffham Nursery, Norwich road
Greengrass Diasson, blacksmith, White Hart lane
Gurneys, Birkbecks, Barclay & Buxton, bankers (branch), (draw on Barclay, Bevan & Co. London);
Wm. Castell Southwall, manager, Market place
Gwyn Rev. Ar. Rice, M.A. curate in charge of South Acre, and senior curate at Swaffham; h Camping land
Hall Herbert, clothes dealer, Lynn street
Hall Mrs Mary, butcher, Station street
Hamond Mrs Mary Ann, Manor house
Hamond Rd. Horace, Esq. J.P. Commander R.N. Manor hs
Hannant Charles Henry, grocer (H. & Son), Market place
Hannant & Son. drapers, grocers & provision merts.
agents for Messrs. W. & A. Gilbey's wines & spirits, Market pl
Hannant Wm. Abbott (H. & Son), 5 Providence terrace
Harper Henry, cabinet-mkr. uphlstr. & paperhngr. London st
Hawes Chas. Pollard, clerk, 13 Providence ter. Station st
Hayden Walter John, bank clerk, 4 Providence terrace
Hewitt Miss Sarah, 7 Providence terrace
Heyhoe George, cattle dealer, Castleacre street
Heyhoe Jabez, pork butcher, Lynn street
Heyhoe John, builder, stone, marble & monumental mason, dealer in builders' materials, London street
Heyhoe Rt. plumber, gasfitter, house decorator, auctioneer, valuer,
land and house agent, and farmer at Red house, Cockley Cley,
agent to the Westminster Fire Insurance & London & General Plate Glass Insce. Cos. London st
Heyhoe Wm. Mahalaleel, coach builder,
agent to the British Empire Mutual Life & Imperial Fire Insce. Cos. Station st
Hook Mr John, Montpelier house, Market place
Hopkins Mrs Ellen, painter, plumber & glazier, Lynn street
Houchen Rev. Bircham, M.A., J.P. rector of South Pickenham, Surrogate of the Diocese,
chaplain to the Union Workhouse, & Hon. Chaplain to the 3rd Norfolk Rifle Voluntrs.
Superintendent of Savings Bank, Saye hs
Howard Henry, baker and harness maker, Lynn street
Howorth Mrs. The White Lodge, Church yard
Howes James, photographer, & beerhouse, White Hart ln
Howes Robt. James, farmer & boot & shoe dlr. Market pl
Howlitt Samuel, builder and contractor, Ash close
Hubbard Mrs Charlotte, vict. Spread Eagle, London street
Hudson John, hawker and clothier, Lynn street
Hudson Robert, poulterer and confectioner, Market place
Hunt Miss Amelia, ladies' school, Market place
Hunter George, beerhouse, London street
Hunter Miss Hannah, shopkeeper, Lynn street
Huson Miss Mary, upholsteress, White Hart lane
Impson Joshua F. builder and contractor, surveyor and valuer.
brick and tile manufacturer, and dealer in builders' materials,
Castle Acre st. & Nrwch. rd. brick yd
Jackson Robert, wheelwright and smith, London road
Jacob George, farmer, Carol house
Jarvis Chas. Wm. basket maker and cooper, London street
Jeffery C. & Co. merts. & mltstrs. Lndn. st. & at King's Lynn
Jeffery Charles (C. & Co.); h London st
Jeffries George, builder, contractor & lime burner, Lynn st
Jamieson William, travelling draper, Providence terrace
Johnson Ar. ironmonger's assistant, London street
Johnson Charles Stevenson, solicitor's clerk, clerk to the Urban Sanitary Authority,
Johnson Edwin, rural postman (Narborough and Pentney), 11 Providence terrace, London road
Johnson Fredk. Walter, county court clerk, and secretary to the Foresters' Friendly Society,
Market place
Johnson Jas. drill sergt. to the 3rd Norfolk R.V. London st
Johnson Robert, vict. White lion, Castle Acre street
Johnson Richd. Alex. gunmaker, bellhanger & locksmith, Castle Acre street
Johnson Thomas, postmaster
Johnson Thomas & Son, gunmakers, Market place
Johnson William Parson (T. & Son), Market place
Jones Rev. —, (Baptist), London street
Kemble Benjamin, market gardener, horses and traps on hire, Mangate street
Kendle Thomas, carter, Lynn street
Kenny Daniel, foreman, 15 Providence ter. Station street
Kidall Mrs Mary Ann, Station street
Lack Mrs Mary, Station street
Lack Wm. saddler & harness maker, ironmonger.
agent to the Royal Exchange Fire and life Insurance Co. Market place
Lane William, grocer and pork butcher, Lynn street
Larwood Edgar George, farmer, North Pickenham road
Lewis Matthew & Ar. Wm. bricklayers & slaters, Lynn st
Lewis Ar. Wm. (M. & A. W.); h Lynn street
Lewis Matthew (M. & A. W.); h Lynn road
Lindsey Mrs Sarah, Lynn street
Ling Mr Samuel, Ash Close house, Ash close
Local Board Office at Mr C. S. Johnston's, Mangate street
Long Miss Mary Ann, dressmaker, Station street
Loveless Stephen, plumber and glazier, Station street
Lowe Edward, builder & lessee of Assembly Rooms, and keeper of the Shire Hall, Market place
Maberly Henry Edward, M.R.C.S. Eng. and B.A. Dublin, assistant surgeon; h Market place
Mainton Mrs Maria, Albert terrace
Mantripp Joseph Sterry, grocer and draper, Market place
Margarson Edward, M.R.C.V.S. vet. surgeon, Market place
Marriott J. & R. coal, cake, and corn merchants, and at Narborough; Chas. Pollard Hawes, clerk
Marriott Robt. Buchanan, M.R.C.S. Eng. & L.S.A. surgeon
medical officer to the Swaffham district of the Swaffham Union, 1 Castle Acre street
Matthews John, harness maker, Lynn street
Medlock Henry, baker and beer retailer, Ash close
Medlock Thomas, baker, London street
Mendham Mrs Mary Ann, lodgings, Albert terrace
Moffatt Miss Jane, dressmaker, London street
Money Mr William, London street
Montague Misses Louisa, Charlotte, Agnes, and Grace, Pickenham road
Moore Frank Beaumont, draper, grocer, and general stores, patent medicine vendor,
agent to the Commercial Union Fire and Life Assurance Company, Market place
Moore Mr Thomas, 3 Providence terrace, Station street
Morse & Woods, maltsters, brewers, & wine & sprit merts. White Hart lane,
Robt. Alpe, manager; and Lowestoft
Moy Mrs Hannah Maria, dressmaker, Lynn street
Muffett John, builder and grocer, London street
Munford Benj. superindt. police, Police station, London st
Myall Hezekiah, pork butcher, public waiter, and collector of the market tolls, London street
Nelson Walter, pork butcher & jobbing gardener, London st
Newdick George Robert, clothier, hatter, and general outfitter, Market place
Nichols Robt. Dunthorne, boot and shoe maker, Market pl
Oakes Mr Richard, Thornton house, London street
Offord & Co. gardeners. florists, & seedsmen, London st
Offord Francis Thomas (O. & Co.); h London street
Offord Herbert Thomas (O. & Co.); h London street
Overton Thos. Wm. cabinet-maker & upholstr. Market pl
Packer Mrs Mary, London street
Packer Miss Ann, preparatory school, London street
Page John William, bank cashier, & agent to the Crown Life Assurance Company, Market place
Page Miss M. National schoolmistress
Pain William, blacksmith, Albert terrace
Palmer Mr Charles, The Hollies, London street
Palmer John, victualler, King's Arms, Market place
Palmer John George, brewery traveller, London street
Palmer Mrs London street
Palmer Thomas, solicitor, commr. in all courts, and for taking ackgmts.;
agent to the Norwich Union Fire & Life Insurance Co. Market place; h Beech Cottage
Parsons George, cowkeeper, London street
Petch William, fish hawker, London street
Pheasant Wm. master at National school; h Albert terrace
Philo Albert Edward, china, glass and earthenware dealer, leather cutter, and boot & shoe maker, Market place
Philo Jas. boot & shoe mkr. parish clk. & sexton, Churchyd.
Pitcher Arthur (Pitcher & Son); h Camping land
Pitcher & Son, house sign and ornamental painters, Lynn st
Pitcher Wm. (P. & Son), & vict. Horse and Groom, Lynn st
Plowright Edward John (H. P. & Sons), Market place
Plowright H. & Sons, ironmongers, ironfndrs. & agricultural implt. mkrs.
agts. to the Alliance Fire Insrnce. Co. Market pl
Plowright Wm. Henry (H. P. & Sons), Market place
Plumb Mrs Elizabeth, Market place
Powley George (P. & Cork), Market place
Powley Mrs Agnes, dress & mantle mkr. & drpr. Market pl
Powley & Cork, tailors and woollen drapers, Market place
Powley James, tailor, London street
Powley William, bricklayer, coal and wood dealer, Lynn rd
Pratt Robt. grocer and provision merchant, Castle Acre st
Preston Wm. miller, corn and coal mert. Station st.
mill, Pool mill, and Cley road mill; h Station street
Purse John, beerhouse, 63 Lynn street
Rae Thos. Aitken, tra. draper and outfitter, Station street
Railway Station, Gt. Eastern (Ely, Lynn & Dereham brch.), Station street;
Chas. Saml. Easthaugh, stationmaster
Randall Miss Ellen, fancy repository, Market place
Reynolds Mr Richard, London street
Ripper Benjamin, shopkeeper, Lynn street
Rix Frederic Ely, clerk, London street
Rix Mrs. beerhouse, sec to Odd Fellows' Club, Ash close
Roberson Geo. fishmonger, game, poultry, and marine store dealer, Market place
Roberson John, horses and traps let on hire, London st
Rolfe William Tillett, professor of music, organist to the parish church, Market place
Rose John, victualler, Railway Tavern and posting-house
Rout Rd. farmer and gardener, Pickenham road
Rowe E. plumber, gasfitter, and painter, London street
Sands Thomas, victualler, Greyhound, Market place
Savings Bank, Market place; E. W. Balders, secretary
Sayer Mrs Mary, Princes road
Selfe Walter Warner, beerhouse, London street
Senior Mrs Elizabeth, sempstress, London street
Sewell Robt, solr. commr. in the supreme ct. of judicature, supt. registrar,
clerk to the Union, to the justices for the divisions of Sth. Greenhoe and Grimshoe,
to the commrs. of income tax, land tax, and inhabited house duty for both districts,
to the assessment committee, and to the rural sanitary authority,
deputy clerk of the peace for the county, and deputy registrar of the consistory ct.
Mangate st
Shire Hall; Edward Lowe, keeper, back of London street
Smith Alfred Richard, butcher, Market place
Smith Rev. Barnard Gooch, B.A. curate, The Shrublands
Smith Mrs Caroline, The Shrublands
Smith H. D. chemist's assistant, 2 Providence ter. Station st
Smith John, farmer, London street
Smith Robert, clothier and hawker, London street
Smith Robert, iron and brass founder, engineer, machinist, and agricultural implement maker, White Hart lane
Smith Robert, school attendance officer, Ash close
Southwell William Castell, manager at Messrs. Gurney's bank,
agent to the Sun Fire & Life, Scottish Amicable Life, Norwich Hailstorm Assurance
& London Accident Insurance Cos. Bank house, Market place
Spencer Thos. & Son (Chas.), boot & shoe mnfrs. Market pl
Stratton Frederick, London road
Stratton John, farmer; h Little Massingham
Stevenson James, goods clerk, Station street
Stroulger Miss Fanny, shopkeeper, London street
Sutton & Co. carriers; H. G. Chittock, agent, Spread Eagle, London street
Sutton Mrs Mary, Market place
Taylor Jabez, baker, Caste Acre street
Thomas Augustis Wm. surgeon & physician, L.R.C.S. Edin. & L.R.C.P. (Edin.),
deputy-surgeon to the Union Workhouse and to the Sporle district of the Swaffham Union,
Clematis house, Castle Acre street
Thomas Frederic John. surgeon, M.R.C.S. & L.S.A. Eng.,
surgeon to the Union workhouse, medical officer to the Sporle district of the Swaffham union,
Clematis house, Castle Acre street
Thurgood James, cooper, London street
Tooley William, carrier & leather-seller, Castle Acre street
Tuck William, shoemaker, London street
Turnour Mrs. Market place
Union Workhouse, London road; Walter Mead, master
Utting Miss Agnes, 12 Providence terrace, Station street
Vince Mr Henry, 10 Providence terrace, London street
Vince Mr John Adams, 8 Providence terrace, Station st
Vynne & Everett, corn, cake & coal merts. Station street
Vynne Richard (V. & Everett), London street
Walker Mrs Elizabeth Ann, fancy repository and depôt for the Christian Knowledge Society, Mangate street
Walker George, relieving officer, registrar of births and deaths, vaccination officer, Mangate street
Ward John, farm steward to Jacob Finch, White Hart la
Water Works Co. (lim.); W. G. Winearts, secretary; Jno. Barber, collector, Castle Acre street
Webster Mrs Fanny, Albert terrace
Wharton William, hairdresser & perfumer, Market place
Wilkins Rev. — (Baptist)
Wilkinson Goss, sanitary inspector to Swaffham union district, Lynn street
Wilkinson Mrs Sophia, fishmonger & game dlr. Market pl
Williams Austin, farm steward to John Stratton, London st
Williamson Mrs Mary, Providence terrace, Station street
Wilson Mrs Agnes Mary, London street
Winearts Wm. Good, solr., commr. in all the courts, and for taking acknowledgments,
vestry clerk, clerk to the Town Charity Trustees,
sec. to the Swaffham Water Works Co. (lim.),
agent to the Alliance Fire & Life & Rock Life Assurance Cos.,
sec, to the Corn Exchange Co. (lim.), Castle Acre street
Winter Alfred John, registrar of the county court
Winter Rev. George Rt., M.A., vicar of Swaffham and rural dean of North Cranwich, The Vicarage
Withers Thomas, farmer, Manor farm, lessee of market tolls, Mangate street
Woodhall Rev. Thomas (Primitive Methodist), Station st
Worrell Mrs Sophia, pastrycook & confr. Castle Acre st
Yeomans Rt. Barnard, boot & shoe maker, Pratt's yard, Castle Acre street; h Lynn street
CARRIERS — Israel Turner and David Nicholls to Castle Acre, daily; Mrs. Jarvis to Necton, Sat.; Robt. Spinks to Northwold; John Thompson to Sporle and Dunham, Mon. Wed. and Sat.; William Bilham to Sporle, daily
* A 'chapman' (A.S. ceapmann), however, originally was not a mere pedlar, but a merchant, and there being in early times 'ceapmanne' or merchant guilds, it is probable that some of the guilds mentioned in the text were of this description.
