Diss Family History Group

DICKLEBURGH with LANGMERE is a parish and large village, situated on an acclivity, on the road from Ipswich to Norwich, 2 miles east from Burston station on the Ipswich and Norwich section of the Great Eastern railway and 5 north-east from Diss, in the Southern division of the county, Diss hundred and petty sessional division, Depwade union, Harleston county court district, rural deanery of Redenhall, archdeaconry of Norfolk and diocese of Norwich. The village is partly lighted by electricity. The church of All Saints is a building of flint in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave with clerestory, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower containing a clock and 5 bells: in 1867 the old pews were removed and the interior reseated with open oak benches: and in 1870 an organ was presented, the chancel walls repaired and a new roof erected, at the cost of the Rev. W. C. Mathison, a former rector: the stained east window was given by his widow: on the wall of the chancel is a marble tablet to the Lady Platers, and there are others to George Lee esq. Captain Starkie, Lieut.-Gen. Turner, and one erected by his brother officers to Captain Henry Turner, his son, who died in the Crimea; the church affords 400 sittings. The register dates from the year 1540. The living is a rectory, net yearly value £550, including 120 acres of glebe. with residence, in the gift of Trinity College, Cambridge, and held since 1900 by the Rev. John Gregory Forbes M.A. of that college. There is a Baptist chapel here, erected in 1882. The town lands produce a net income of about £30, of which three-twentieths are expended in the purchase of coal and three-twentieths for scholastic purposes, the remainder being applied by the churchwardens to the support of the church. The interest of a sum of £1,000, left by the late Mrs. Mathison, is chiefly expended in apprenticing boys, the remainder being distributed in various other charitable objects. The rector for the time being is lord of the rectorial manor of Dickleburgh; the land belongs to 91 different owners. The soil is partly heavy and partly light; subsoil, clay and gravel. The chief crops are wheat and barley and some beans. The area of Dickleburgh with Langmere is 2,356 acres; rateable value, £3,259; and the population in 1911 was 776.

Langmere is a hamlet or township annexed to Dickleburgh, but locally in Earsham hundred. There is no village, but several farmhouses.

Parish Clerk, Walter Saunders.

Post, M. O., T. & Telephonic Express Delivery Office. - Arnold A. Bryant, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Scole at 7 a.m. & 2.15 p.m.; dispatched at 9.20 a.m. & 7.15 p.m.; sundays, arrive at 7 a.m. ; dispatched at 11.30 a.m

Pillar Letter Box cleared at 9 a.m. & 6.40 p.m.; sundays, 11.15 a.m

Police Station, Constable Robert Wm. Turner, in. charge

Public Elementary School (mixed), erected at a cost of £100, being part of a sum of £500 left by Henry Kent for the purpose; the remainder was invested in Consols & has since been considerably increased: in 1841 a new wing was added & the school was again enlarged in 1871 & 1881; the school is under the control of trustees & the Council jointly, & will hold 200 children; average attendance, 170; Solomon Bye, master; Mrs . Annie Hart, assistant mistress

DICKLEBURGH.

Becher Frank G. Manor house
Etheridge John, Rose cottage
Forbes Rev. Jn. Gregory M.A. Rectory
Le Grys Mrs. Lea house
Smith Samuel

COMMERCIAL.

Aldrich & Bryant, grocers, Post office
Alexander Edwin John, farmer, The Beeches
Barnes Montagne, shoemaker
Black David, farmer Dickleburgh hall
Brown George, farmer & Crown P.H.
Bullingham Walter, poulterer
Catchpole Jas. jun. farmer & poulterer
Cattermole George, King’s Head P. H.
Chenery Thos. & Son, brush manufacturers
Cook John Thos. butcher, Langmere
Dent Arthur Osborne, insurance agent
Draper Albert Geo. baker & confectioner
Draper John Charles N. cycle agent
Etheridge John, grocer, draper, clothier, ironmonger, earthenware, hardware & general stores
Evans Henry, harness maker, overseer & clerk to Parish Council
Everett Annie Maria (Miss),dress maker
Garland Arthur, farmer, Carlton grove
Gibson Bobert George. farmer
Gibson Edward, farmer
Lawes Gertrude (Mrs.), draper & grocer
Le Grys Fredk. farmer, Seamere green
Le Grys James, farmer
Limmer William, builder, painter & decorator, pump maker, wheelwright, well sinker & artesian well borer; pumps of all kinds fixed & repaired
Macro Elizabeth (Mrs.), farmer, Manor farm & High Common
Mickleburgh John Samuel, farmer
Moore Lewis, farmer, Seamere green
Outlaw & Son, butchers; & at Pulham Market, Pulham St. Mary the Virgin & Harleston
Paterson George J. farmer, Hill farm
Randle George, blacksmith
Saunders Walter, photographer
Simonds Roger, farmer
Simpson Frederick, miller (wind)
Smith Wm. & Son, millers (steam)
Vyse Charlotte (Mrs.) & Son, farmers
Wells William, stone & marble mason
Wilby Thomas & Sons, butchers
Wilton & Son, electrical engineers; public electric supply; complete electric lighting plants
Wilton Frank, farmer
Wilton Thomas Edmund, tailor & breeches maker ; wedding & funeral orders promptly executed. Tel. address, “Wilton, Dickleburgh”

LANGMERE.

COMMERCIAL.

Baldry Bobert, farmer
Brown Robert, farmer
Cornford Harry, farmer
Green George, farmer
Moore Robert J, farmer, The Lodge
Saunders Albert, farmer
Wilby James, farmer