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Ringstead, Barret. - A decayed parish 2 m. S. from Hunstanton.

Ringstead, Great. - A village, formerly consisting of two parishes, 2 m. from Hunstanton. The Church of St Andrew is an ancient building in the Decorated style. Of the Church of St Peter all that remains is a circular Norman tower.

Rockland All Saints and Rockland St Andrew. - These are united parishes 4½ m. W. from Attleborough. All Saints Church nave is a fine example of Saxon, herringbone and ashlar work. The church contains a cable-stitch tombstone, believed to be the oldest in the country. St Andrew's Church is in ruins.

Rockland St Mary. - a scattered village 6 m. S.E. from Norwich. The church is an ancient flint building in the Gothic style. A few feet east of it are the ruins of the church of Rockland St Margaret, or Little Rockland. Rockland Broad (about 100 acres) adjoins this parish and the Yare.

Rockland St Peter. - a village 4½ m. W. by N. from Attleborough. The church is an ancient flint building with a round tower.

Rollesby. - A village 1½ m. S.W. from Martham station. The church, an ancient building in the Early English style, has a tower partly Norman, and contains a fine altar-tomb, with recumbent effigy, to Rose Claxton, who died in 1601; also a mural monument, with fourteen kneeling figures, to Leonard Mapes, who died in 1619. Rollesby Broad is connected with Filby and Ormesby Broads, the three extending over 600 acres. These broads are well-known to anglers. Boats may be hired at the Eel's Foot and King's Head inns, Ormesby. There is accommodation for visitors at the Horse and Groom Inn, Rollesby.

Roudham. - A parish if 1 3/4 m. E. from Roudham junction. The church was destroyed by fire, but some parts of its ruins remain.

Rougham. - A village 4 m. S.E. from Massingham station. The church contains several monuments and brasses to the Yelverton family. Over the west doorway is a carving of the Crucifixion.

Roughton. - A village 3 m. N.W. from Gunton station. The church, a flint building in the Norman style, has a round tower, and on the north side of the chancel are traces of either a vestry or chantry chapel.

Roxham. - a parish 2 m. S.E. from Downham.

Roydon (near Diss). - A village 1½ m. W. from Diss station. The church contains some monuments to the Frere family, and its south porch was built in memory of Temple Frere, who was drowned at Cambridge while attempting to save the life of a fellow student. The Hall is the seat of the Freres, a very ancient Norfolk family whose most distinguished representative was Sir Bar tie Frere, Bart.

Roydon (near Lynn). - A village 6 m. E.N.E. from Lynn. The church has two Norman doorways.

Rudham, East. - A village with a station, 7 m. W. from Fakenham. There are some remains here of Coxford or Cokesford Abbey, founded in the twelfth century.

Rudham, West. - A village 2½ m. S.W. from East Rudham station.

Runcton, North. - A village 2 m. S.W. from Middleton station. The parish contains the hamlet of Hardwick.

Runcton, South. - A village 4 m. N. by W. from Downham. The church contains a fine Norman arch.

Runhall. - A scattered parish 1 m. N. from Hardingham station. The church is partly in ruins.

Runham. - a parish on the Bure, 3 m. S.W. from Ormesby station. The church is an ancient building in the Early English style. A ferry which here crosses the Bure is called Runham Swim.

Runton, East and West form a village on the coast with a station at West Runton, 2 m. W. from Cromer. In this village, which lies between Cromer and Sheringham, accommodation for visitors is fast increasing. A "gap" in the cliffs here is a favourite subject with artists. The church, recently restored, is a fine old building in the Decorated style containing some old poppy-headed seats.

Rushall, - a small village 2 m. S. from Pulham St Mary station. The church has the stairs leading to the rood loft intact, and contains two interesting lancet windows. The Hall, now a farmhouse, is surrounded by a moat.

Rushford. - A parish on the Little Ouse, 4 m. S.E, from Thetford. The church was formerly attached to the college of St John the Evangelist, dissolved in 1541, of which there are some interesting ruins. At Shadwell, a hamlet 1½ m. S.E. from Rushford, is Shad well Court, a modern house in the Domestic Gothic style. The hamlet takes its name from "St Chadd's Well," a spring formerly much frequented by pilgrims.

Ruston, East, - A scattered village 3 m. N. from Stalham station. On the panels of the church chancel screens are paintings of St Gregory, St Ambrose, St Augustine, and St Jerome. Richard Porson, who became Professor of Greek at Cambridge University, was born here in 1759, his father then being parish clerk.

Ruston, South. - A parish m. N. from Coltishall station.

Ryburgh, Great. - A village on the Wensum, with a station, 4 m. S.E. from Fakenham. The church contains some good Norman arcading. Its tower is believed to be Saxon.

Ryburgh, Little. - A parish near Ryburgh station. The church is in ruins.

Ryston. - A parish with a station 3/4 m. N., in the parish of Fordham. The church, a small Early English building, has a roof 500 years old, discovered in 1868 when the plaster ceiling of the chancel was removed. Two " leper's" windows, an aumbrey, and a very fine piscina were discovered at the same time. There are several monuments here to the Pratt family, including one with a white marble effigy to Anne, wife of Sir Roger Pratt, who died in 1707. Near Ryston Hall is Kett's Oak, or the " Oak of Reformation," under which Robert Kett, the Norfolk rebel leader, held his court in 1549.

Saham Toney. - A village 2 m. N.W. from Watton station. The church is a fine Perpendicular building, with a parvise over the south porch and a fine oak screen. The font has a carved oak cover, dated 1632, and surmounted by a pelican in her piety. Some of the benches date from the sixteenth century and are poppy-headed. Here is a mere of about 13 acres, in which, it is said, eels of a peculiar kind are caught.

Salhouse. - A village on the Bure, with a station 1 m. to the westward. The church is chiefly Early English and has a detached embattled tower. It contains an old hour-glass stand, a sanctus bell, a crusader's tomb, and two ancient stone coffins. The Hall, a fine castellated Elizabethan house, contains some good pictures and other works of art.

Salle. - A village 1½ m. N. from Reepham station. The church stands on high ground, and is one of the finest Perpendicular buildings in the county. At one time it possessed five altars, raised on a stone platform still to be seen. Part of the screen remains, but its figures are nearly obliterated. The font cover is suspended by a beam projecting from the gallery. The church contains some interesting brasses, including a small one (date 1440), to Galfridus Boleyne and his wife, who were ancestors of Anne Boleyn. Other brasses are dated 1415, 1441, 1453, 1482, 1483, 1486, 1500, 1504, 1505, and 1532. There is a tradition that Anne Boleyn's body was removed from the Tower and buried in this church, and a black marble slab was formerly pointed out as marking her grave. A good view of the surrounding county may be obtained from the top of the church tower, and also from that of the neighbouring church of Cawston, another grand Perpendicular building of great interest to antiquaries.

SALTHOUSE. - A coast parish 4 m. N. trom Holt station. The church, a large Perpendicular building, contains several poppy- headed benches. A curious earthwork is to be seen on a heath adjoining the parish of Kelling.

Sandringham. - A village 1 3/4 m. E. from Wolferton station, and 7½ m. N. by E. from Lynn. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales is lord of the manor and occupies the Hall. A description of the church, park, and neighbourhood is given in Itinerary VIII. Sandringham Park is now thrown open to the public on Wednesdays, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., when the Royal Family are not in residence. Applications for admission should be made by post to Mr Back, Estate Office, Sandringham, or personally before noon on the day of the visit. Cheap tickets to Sandringham are issued by the G. E. R. Company on certain days during the summer months.

Santon. - A parish on the Little Ouse, 3 m. E. from Brandon station. The church, a small flint building re-built in 1628, contains a timber roof, screens, and floor tiles, removed here from West Tofts church in 1858.

Saxlingham. - A parish 3 m. W. from Holt station. A niche in the church contains an effigy of the wife of Sir Christopher Heydon, who died in 1593.

Saxlingham-Nethergate. - A village 2½ m. E. from Flordon station.

Saxlingham-Thorpe. - A parish on the Tas, adjoining Saxlingham- Nethergate. The church is in ruins.

Saxthorpe. - A small village on the Bure, with a station in the adjoining parish of Corpusty.

Scarning, - A village 2 m. E. from Wendling station. The church, a large building in mixed styles, contains a chantry chapel, a good rood screen, and a small sanctus bell in its original oak frame. Drjessop, the author of " Arcady," "The Coming of the Friars," and several archaeological works, is rector of the parish.

Scole. - A village on the Waveney, 2 m. E. from Diss station. The church is an ancient flint building in the Early English style. In the old coaching days an inn here, the "White Hart," was a famous hostelry. It was erected in 1655, and still contains some old carving; but its great sign, on which many figures, including those of Diana and Actseon, Charon and Cerebus, were carved in wood at a cost of £1057 has disappeared. Thorpe Parva, a small hamlet 3 m. E. from Diss, is included in this parish. Only a portion of its church tower remains.

Scottow. - A scattered village 2 m. W. from Worstead station.

Scoulton. - A village 4 m. E. from Watton station. There is a mere here 1½ m. in circumference. It is the breeding-place of large numbers of black-headed gulls, who build their nests on a swampy island. "The sight of tiss birds of Scoulton," says the late Mr G. D. Rowley, '' as they rise in a dense mass, filling the air like snow, is certainly very beautiful; and the sound of the multitude of voices is music to the ornithological ear. The gulls chiefly congregate at each end of ' the heath,' as the great island is called, on which Scotch firs and birches grow. If an unfortunate heron appears they mob him, and keep even the swans at a respectful distance, with blows on the head." Permission must be obtained before visitors can examine this interesting " gullery."

Sculthorpe. - A scattered village 2 m. N.W. from Fakenham. The church contains a brass, with kneeling effigy, to Henry Unton, receiver of fines of the Court of Common Pleas, who died in 1470; and two other brasses, dating respectively from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It has a fine Norman font, bearing sculptured representations of the Adoration of the Three Kings.

Sedgeford. - A village with a station 3/4 m. N., 10 m. S.W. from Burnham Market. The church contains a Norman font and some old woodwork.

Seething. - A village 5 m. N. from Bungay station.

Setch. - A parish 4 m. S. from Lynn.

Sharrington. - A village 3½ m. W.S.W. from Holt station. The church contains some fifteenth and sixteenth century brasses.

Shelfhanger. - A village 3½ m. N.W. from Diss station.

SheltoN. - A village 5 m. S.E. from Forncett junction. The church contains an undated altar-tomb with kneeling effigies to Sir Robert Houghton, his two wives and son; also three altar-tombs to members of the Shelton family. The font is old and curiously carved. The Hall, a moated house formerly the seat of the Shelton family, is now a farmhouse.

Shereford. - A parish on the Wensum, 2 m. W. from Fakenham. The church is in the Norman and Early English styles, and has a round tower.

Sheringham. - A rising seaside resort, with a station, 4 m. from Cromer. This place is fast gaining popularity among visitors to the Norfolk coast, for whom it provides plenty of accommodation, and has many natural attractions. The neighbourhood is charmingly picturesque, its scenery more resembling that of the Isle of Wight than any other part of the country. The cliffs rise to a considerable height, and command wide views of the coast; the beach equals that of Cromer. A great number of places of interest are within easy distance of the villages of Upper and Lower Sheringham, which together form a parish: a list of them will be found under the heading of " Cromer," and a description of most of them in the chapter, '' By the Wild North Sea." The church, a Perpendicular building, contains some interesting monuments and brasses, including a monument to Thomas Heath, who was robbed bind murdered near here in 1635. The links of the Sheringham Golf Club, laid out by Mr Tom Dunn in 1891, are on the summit of cliffs rising 200 feet above the beach. There is a well-appointed clubhouse. Visitors are at all times permitted to walk or drive through the grounds of Sheringham Hall. The principal hotels are the Sheringham, Crown, and Railway.

During the summer months omnibuses run each week-day between Cromer (G.E. R.) station and Sheringham, in connection with the principal express trains from and to London.

Shernborne. - A village 3 m. E. from Snettisham station. The church, which contains a fine ancient font, is said to be the second founded by St Felix in East Anglia.

Shimpling. - A scattered village ½ m. E. from Burston station.

Shingham. - A small parish 4½ m. S.W. from Swaffham. The church, which has no tower, and has not been used for many years, has a fine Early Norman south doorway.