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.

Wright, Mrs., straw bonnet maker and dyer, Back lane

HINGHAM

Hingham is a small near market town in Forehoe hundred, East Norfolk, about 116 miles from London, 14 W.S.W. from Norwich, 6 from Wymondham station W., and 6 N.W. from Attleborough station.

The church of St. Andrew is a fine, noble structure, with a handsome tower, containing 8 bells. The living is a rectory, in the gift of Lord Wodehouse. The parish consists of 3,525 acres, and the population in 1851 was 1,698. Here is a Free Grammar School, which was founded and handsomely endowed in 1727, by Thomas Parlet, Esq.; also a National School, which is wholly supported by the Hon. and Rev. W. Wodehouse, M.A. Here is also an Independent chapel.

Post-Office—Miss Large, postmistress. This is also a Money-order office.

CLERGY, GENTRY, &c

Bassum, Mr. Charles

Bowles, Rev. J. S., Independent minister

Darby, Rev. Martin B., rector of Hackford by Hingham, Market street

Daynes, Mrs. Mary, Chapel street