Kelly's Directory,
1925
HORSEY is a parish
and village, 4 miles north of 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, and archdeaconry and diocese of Norwich. This
parish was frequently flooded until purchased by the late Robert RISING esq. 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 1857-70 (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 rectory, net yearly value £210, and 20
1/2 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Norwich, and held
since 1925 by the Rev. Richard Gilbert Keppel Hart, M.A. of Trinity College,
Cambridge. The poor's allotment of 9A.3R.9P awarded at the inclosure in 1816 is let
for £21 yearly, which sum is distributed in coals. Horsey Hall, a mansion of brick,
rebuilt in 1845, is the property and residence of Baroness Lucas and Dingwall.
Baroness Lucas and Dingwall is 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 1,932 acres, 129 of water known by the name Horsey Mere and 73 of
foreshore; rateable value, £1,584. The population in 1921 was
127.
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.,
J.P. is lord of the manor and sole landowner.
POST and TELEGRAPH OFFICE -
Frederick Robert GOOSE, sub-postmaster. Letters through Great Yarmouth. The nearest
money order office is at Martham.
The children attend the school at
West Somerton.
GAGE, Sidney, The Cottage, Little Waxham
HART, Rev. Richard Gilbert Keppel, M.A. (rector) The
Rectory
LINFORD, William George, Kerrison
House
Lucas and Dingwall, Baroness, Horsey Hall
ANDREWS, John, Nelson's Head P.H.
ANDREWS, Richard, (Mrs), farmer, Kerrison
Farm
BANE, John Robert, Gamekeeper to Baroness Lucas and
Dingwall
BLOOMFIELD, Fredk. Geo. head gardener to Baroness
Lucas and Dingwall
BURTON, John Henry, farmer and assistant overseer,
Hall Farm
ENGLISH, George, farmer and landowner, Street
Farm
Flegg District Nursing Association (Miss ASHBY,
nurse)
GAGE, Sidney, farmer, Warren Farm
GOOSE, Frederick Robert, shopkeeper, post
office
LINFORD, William. farmer, Fords Farm
LONG, Walter, bailiff to E.G. King, esq. Delph
Farm
MILLWALL, Sam, grazier, Warren House, Little
Waxham
PEGGS, George, smallholder
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