Kelly's Directory,
1912
HORSEY is a parish
and village, 4 miles north from Martham station on the Eastern and Midlands joint
railway, about 11 miles north-by-west from Yarmouth, and 21 north-east from
Norwich, in the Eastern division of the county, Tunstead and Happing petty
sessional division, Happing hundred, Smallburgh union, Great Yarmouth county court
district, rural deanery of Waxham (Happing division), archdeaconry of Norfolk and
diocese of Norwich. This parish was frequently flooded until purchased by the late
Robert RISING snr of Horsey Hall who, by repairing the sea bank and draining the
marshes, brought it to a high state of productiveness. He also constructed a road
to Somerton, which is of great advantage to the inhabitants. The church of All
Saints is an ancient building of stone in the Gothic style of the 13th century,
consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled tower, round at the base
and octagonal above and containing one bell: on the north side is a memorial
window, erected in 1872 to the Rev. Edward P. NEALE,M.A., vicar 1857-1870 (died
1871), and in the chancel three to the RISING family: the finely-carved rood-screen
is a work of the 13th century: the church was restored in 1855, at a cost of £300
and has 120 sittings. The register dates from the year 1559. The living is a
vicarage, net yearly value about £58, including 47 acres of glebe, with residence,
in the gift of the Dowager Viscountess Massereene and Ferrard, and held since 1911
by the Rev. William Edward MATTINSON, B.A. of trinity College, Dublin. The
Poor's allotment of 9A.3R.9P awarded at the inclosure in 1816 is now (1912) let for
£11 12s 6d yearly, which sum is distributed in coals. Horsey Hall, a mansion of
brick, rebuilt in 1845, is occupied by Lord Lucas and Dingwall. the Dowager
Viscountess Massereene and Ferrard is the lady of the manor, and principal
landowner. The soil is mixed: subsoil clay and sand. The chief crops are wheat,
oats and barley. The area is 1,942 acres of land, 129 of water known by the name
Horsey Mere, and 73 of foreshore; rateable value £1,470; the population in 1911 was
157.
Sexton: Charles
Bensley
Assistant Overseer: John Henry
Burton
LITTLE WAXHAM,
formerly ex-parochial and annexed to Waxham, is now, under the Divided Parishes
Act, amalgamated with this parish. Bernard James CUDDON-FLETCHER, Esq. of
Somerton, and Dunans, Argyllshire, is lord of the manor and sole
landowner.
POST and TELEGRAPH
OFFICE - Mrs Margaret GOOSE, sub-postmistress.
Letters arrive from Yarmouth at 8am and 4.25pm and
are dispatched at 9.30am and 4.45pm and 9.25am on Sundays. The nearest money order
office is at Martham.
A board of 6 managers was formed March 1904; 4
foundation managers, 1 appointed by parish and 1 by County Council;
??? chairman; correspondent, C.J. KIRKHAM, 28 Hall Plain,
Great Yarmouth
PUBLIC ELEMENTARY
SCHOOL (mixed) - built by the late R. RISING Esq in 1858 and enlarged in 1894 by
the trustees of Horsey Hall Estate, for 50 children; average attendance
27;
, mistress.
Assistant Overseer, Richard ANDREWS
Sexton, Robert ROUSE
Lucas and Dingwall,
Lord Horsey Hall
MATTINSON, Rev. William Edward, (vicar) The
Vicarage
ANDREWS, John Nelson's Head P.H.
ANDREWS, Richard, (Mrs.) farmer Kerrison
Farm
BEAN, John gamekeeper to Lord Lucas and
Dingwall
BURTON, John Henry - farmer and assistant
overseer
ENGLISH, George, farmer
GOOSE, Margaret (Mrs) - shopkeeper, Post
Office
LOVETT, Edward - head gardener to Lord Lucas and
Dingwall.
MYHILL, William Robert - farmer Street
Farm.
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