The book

People and places mentioned in the book

Families

Abigail, Amis, Anson, Bacon, Barclay, Bayfield, Batt, Bishop, Bond, Borrett, Blake, Bumphrey, Butterfield, Chapman, Cooper, Copeman, Crane, Denham, Denney, Douglas Powell, Emery, England, Finch, Flaxman, Frankland, Gamble, Green, Groom, Hayward, Hickey, Hitchcock, Hudson, Ives, Joy, Ketton, Mallett, Mann, Mills, O'Connell, Painter, Partridge, Paston, Puxley, Rounce, Shears, Shepherd, Spurrell (or Sporrell), Thaxter, Thompson, Tuck, Wiseman, Wright, Wrighton

People

Basa, Rev. Francis Arden, Rev. Skeffington Armstrong, Rev. Isaac Avarne, Benjamin Cabbell Bond, Richard Boyce, Neville Bulwer-Lytton, Rev. John Stephenson Cann, Dixon Denham, John Charles Denham, William de Sporle, Sir George Edwards MP, Rev. Henry Charrington Fisher, Rev. Henry Thomas Griffith, Francis Gordon Haward, Sir Samuel Hoare MP, Shelagh Hutson, Robert Bourne Joy, Robert Ladbrooke, Mary l'Anson, Philip Wynell Mayow, Geoffrey Daniel Spurrell Mills, Rev. William Woodward Mills, Sir Charles Mott-Radclyffe MP, William Petrie Flinders, George Stanley Repton, Humphry Repton, Henry Rider Haggard, Lilias Rider Haggard, Herbert Roper, William Henry Scott, John Shrive, Harriet Spettigue, Flaxman Charles John Spurrell, Rev. Edward Howard Taylor, Charles John Tuck, Rev. William Walker, James Watney, Rev. James Wilson, Thomas Erskine Wilson, William Windham

Places

Aldborough, Aylmerton, Aylsham, Baconsthorpe, Barberton (South Africa), Barningham (or North Barningham), Bessingham, Bessingham church (St. Mary's church), Bessingham Manor House, Billockby, Burgh St. Margaret, Church Cottages, Cromer, The Den (or Den Farm, or Elizabeth House), Erpingham, Felbrigg, Fiddlers Haven, Flaxman's Farm (Roughton), Glandyfi Castle (Wales), Glebe Cottage (or Glebe Farm, or Rectory Cottage), Gresham, Gresham village school, Hanworth (or Hanworth Hall), Horse Shoes Inn, Ipswich School, Itteringham, Lime Kiln Farm, Little Brig Lane, Lords Lands, Manor Farm, Manor House Farm, New Road, Old Coach House, Overstrand, Pottergate Street Academy, Rose Cottage, Roughton, Roughton Mill, Sheringham, Sidestrand, Southwark, Sporle, The Street, Sustead, Sustead Old Hall, Thurgarton, Thurgarton Hall, Thurgarton House (or Thurgarton Old Hall), Thwaite, Yew Tree Cottage

Other

Barclay Perkins and Co., Bessingham parish council, Boer War, bowls, churchwardens, common land, council houses, cricket, Cromer Club House, Cromer Ridge, daffodils, Domesday Book, enclosure, Erpingham Rural District Council, First World War, gardening, Gray and Dacre brewery (West Ham), harvest, hedgerows, Home Guard, horses, horticulture, labour account books, 5th Royal Irish Lancers, Land Valuation Office, malt, malthouse, mangels, Methodism, Narcissus 'Katherine Spurrell', National Farm Survey, Norfolk and Norwich Club, Norfolk Imperial Yeomanry, North Norfolk Harriers, Norwich Castle Museum, Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race, potatoes, Roman Norfolk, Royal Sussex Regiment, Scarrow Beck, Second World War, sugar beet, Sustead parish council, turnips, War Agricultural Executive Committee