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Nobbs' Lane, a public bridleway, turns off Nobbs' Corner, the crossroads where Hempnall and Topcroft parishes meet. It is named after a brick maker, Richard Nobbs, whose suicide in 1785 is recorded in the "Norwich Mercury" on 4 June of that year. When the skeletal remains of his son were found half-buried in a ditch at Tasburgh and he found himself being suspected of the boy's murder, he hanged himself in Pope's Wood > Link. Being a 'self-murderer', Nobbs was denied burial in consecrated ground and buried by the crossroads instead, which until then had been known as Sisland Cross.