Melville and Co.'s Directory and Gazetteer of Norwich, Yarmouth, Dereham, Swaffham, Wymondham, Fakenham, Thetford, Attleborough, Aylsham, Diss, Reepham, Foulsham, Hingham, &c.; Ipswich, Bury St. Edmund's, Woodbridge, Lowestoft, Beccles, Bungay, Halesworth, Eye, Stowmarket, Needham Market, &c. [1856]

by F. R. Melville & Co.

Norwich Post-Office.

Samuel Base, Esq., Post-Master.

Mr. T. Ruddock, Chief Clerk.

Messrs. Rainger, W. Base, H. Base, Hunt, and Snelling, Clerks.

The London Mail arrives at 2 28 a.m. and 4 35 p.m.; the Ipswich at 6 25 a.m. and 4 p.m. The same Mails are dispatched as under, viz.: London at 5 40 a.m. and 9 40 p.m.; Ipswich at 5 50 a.m. and 7 20 p.m. One bag is received from Yarmouth at 7 a.m. and another at 6 20 p.m.; and three are sent to Yarmouth daily, viz.: First, at 6 50 a.m.; the second at 4 20 p.m.; and the third at 9 30 p.m. Mails to Aylsham and Cromer are sent off at 6 a.m., and return at 7 p.m.; Drayton, Attlebridge, Cawston, Coltishall, North Walsham, Stalham, Burlingham, Blofield, Acle, Brooke, Bergh Apton, Loddon and Reepham, at 6 50 a.m., and return at 6 20 p.m.

There are Foot-posts at 6 40 a.m. from Norwich to Keswick, Mulbarton, and Bracon Ash; to Hellesdon and Cossey; to Old Lakenham, Caistor, Stoke, Shottesham, and Saxlingham; to Earlham, Bawburgh, and Marlingford; to Trowse, Surlingham, and Rockland; to Newmarket Road, Eaton, and Cringleford; to Easton, Upper Heigham, and Honingham; to New Catton and Sprowston; also to Mousehold, Great Plumstead, Witton, and Brundall. From North Walsham to Mundesley; to Bacton; also to Bradfield, Antingham, Southrepps, and Trimmingham. From Hevingham to Buxton, Lammas, Brampton, and Oxnead. From Cromer to Sherringham. From Blofield to South Walsham, Panxworth, Ranworth, Woodbastwick, and Salhouse. From Stalham to Happisburgh; to Sutton, Catfield, and Ludham; to Hickling and Palling. From Loddon to Heckingham, Raveningham, Norton, Thurlton, Thorpe, and Haddiscoe. From Acle to Moulton, Halvergate, Freethorpe, and Reedham: to Upton. From Reepham to Sall, Wood Dalling, Heydon, Corpusty, and Saxthorpe. From Attlebridge to Morton, Weston, Lenwade, Great Witchingham, Sparham, and Lyng. From Burlingham to Lingwood, Strumpshaw, Buckenham, Hassingham, and Cantley. From Attlebridge to Swannington, Brandiston, Haveringland, and Cawston. From Filby to Stokesby. From Hanworth to Barningham. From Aylsham to Itteringham. From Bergh Apton to Thurton and Ashby. From Burgh St. Margaret’s to Rollesby, Repps, Oby, Clippesby, and Billockby. From Smallburgh to Dilham, Honing, Crostwight, and Ridlington.

The delivery of letters brought by the London Night Mail, the Yarmouth and Ipswich, commences at 7 a.m.; and those by the London and Ipswich Day Mails at 5 p.m.—Letters received by the other Mails and Foot-posts arriving between 6 and 7 p.m., are delivered about 7 15 p.m., including those from Cromer.

For the London Mail, leaving at 5 40 a.m., letters are received till 5 40; for the same Mail, dispatched at 9 40 p.m., and for the Yarmouth, the box is closed at 9 0; but letters received till 9 30, with an extra stamp affixed. For the Ipswich Night Mail, one hour before its departure; but letters received till 7 10, with an extra stamp affixed. Stamped and unpaid letters may be put into the box till a quarter before 6 a.m., for the local posts.