Rogers' Directory of Norwich and Neighbourhood

by Edmund Dawson Rogers

Thompson, James, market gardener

Wright, Frederick, miller

MARKSHALL, or Mattishall Heath, 2½ miles from Norwich, contains but 4 houses and 26 inhabitants. The land belongs chiefly to Mrs. H. Dashwood, of Caistor St. Edmund, with which, the church having been desecrated, the parish has long been consolidated in ecclesiastical matters.

PRIVATE RESIDENT.

Gillett, Mrs.

COMMERCIAL.

Gillett, Thomas, farmer

MULBARTON, in Humbleyard hundred, and Henstead union, 5 miles from Norwich, contains 587 inhabitants, and 1350 acres of land. The living is a rectory, with that of Kenningham annexed, joint annual value £606, in the gift of the Rev. J. H. Steward, and the Rev. Richard Gay Lucas, B.A., the incumbent. The Rev. J. H. Steward, M.A., and Sir William Bellairs, Knt., are the chief landowners; the former being lord of the manor. There is a school on the National system.

PRIVATE RESIDENTS.

Bellairs, Capt. Edmund Hook Wilson, Mulbarton lodge