DIRECTORY.] 909 STRADBROKE. [.] Simpson------John Edward, stone & marble mason, st Turnrr Joseph, carrier, Limetree place Simpson Thomas Horace, linen & woollen draper &c. Turner Philip, grocer, linen & woollen draper, Ipswich st Tavern street Turner Samuel, cabinet maker, Union street Smith & Co. millers & bakers, Ipswich street Tydeman George, watch maker & jeweller, Ipswich street Smith Charlotte (Mrs.), confectioner, Ipswich street Tyrleman 'Villiam, furniture broker, Ipswich street Steggall John, baker, llury street 'Vade Sidney, brush make1·, Tpswich street Stowmarkct Bank (Oakes, Bevan & Co.; T. G. Youngman, Walton James Frederick, corn chandler, Bury street manager), Market place; draw on Barclay, Benm & Co. ·ward James, shoeing & blacksmith, Ip:nvich street London 'Vebb & Son, curriers & leather merchants, Stowupland Paper liiaking Co. (limited) (Thomas Leigh, street. See advertisement manager), near the Railway station 'Vebb Francis, maltster, Stowupland street Suttle Arnold, White Lion, Stowupland street · 'Yebb Henry, grocer, Bury street Suttle Hannah (Mrs.), dyer, Churchyard 'Venham George, shoe maker, Limetree place Suttle Louisa (Mrs.), milliner, Ipswich street Whayman Owen, teacher of music, Ipswich street Suttle Simon, beer retailer & lath render, Limetree place Whayman Owen, veterinary surgeon, Regent street Suttle ''Villiam, bailiff to county court, Ipswich street Winwood Joseph, wood tw·ner, Ipswich street Suttle William, furniture broker, Ipswich street Woods, Cocksedge & 'Yarner, iron & bra~s founders, engi­ Sutton Charles William, chemist, Market place, & at neers, millwrights & agTicultural implement makers, W alsham-le-Willows Suffolk iron works & at Bury St. Edmund's & Colchester; Thing Thomas, shopkeeper, Childers road & Newmarket Thurlow George, tailor, Union street Woodward William Bridgnell, supervisor, Ipswich street Thurston Robert, beer retailer, Stowupland street Woolby Arthur B. bookseller, stationer & printer & sub­ Trickcr James, market gardener distributor of stamps, Ipswich street Tricker John, baker, Regent street 'Yorledge Robert, tailor & woollen draper, Stowupland street Tricker Lydia (Miss), dress maker, Stowupland street Wright Samuel Henry, importer of wines & spirits & ale & Tricker Robert, baker & confectioner, Market place porter merchant, Ipswich street Turner Charles & Co. grocers & drapers, Market place Youngman Thomas, fruiterer &c. Ipswich street Turner Isaac, carrier, Bury road Youngs Thomas, shoe maker, Ipswich street

STOWUPLAND is a parish, on the eastern acclivity of which is occasionally used by the l\Iethodists and In· the Gipping, opposite Stowmarket: it includes Stowmarket dcpendents. The Green, or Common, is very extensive, railway station, and forms a plea~ant suburb to that town, ami beneficial to the poor ratepayers of the pari:sh. Stow­ extending 4 milesea~t, in the Western division of the county, market Gas Works are situated here. Here arc two ancient hundred, union and county court district of Stow, rural Halls, surrounded by moats, now occupied as farmhouses. deanery of Stow, archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of Upland Hall is the residence of Alfred Woodward Skingley, . The living of Stownpland is a vicarage annexecl Esq. The Errrl of Ashburnham is lord of the manor and chief to that of Stowmarket. Here is also the district church of landowner: there are also many smaller proprietors. 'fhe the Holy Trinity, erected in 1843, the cost of which was soil is heavy, and yields good crops of wheat, barley, beans, about £1,500, raised by the late Hev. A. G. H. Hollings­ clover and hops. The population in 1861 was 986, and the worth. The register dates from the year 1844. The living area is 2,841 acres. is a vicarage, yearly value £100, in the gift of the Parish Cle1·k, William Baker. vicar of Stowmarket, and held by the Rev. Frederick Cookson, ll.A., of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Letters by foot post through Stowmarket, which is the There is a Sunday school in the village. There is a chapel, nearest money order office Cookson Rev. l<'rederick, B.A. [vicar of Dent William, carpenter Robinson John, carpenter Holy Trinity], Hillside Diaper Samuel, farmer, Earl Stonham Scotchmer Henry, farmer Skinglcy Alfred Woodward, esq. Up- town barn Shulver Joseph, shopkeeper land hall Francis Robrrt, hricklayer Spyvee Robert, farmer Stearn Thomas, csq. Avenue Hart James, blacksmith Stcarn Edwin, farmer, Sheepcote hall \Viseman Mr. John Fison Hart William, wheelwright Stedman George, fimner COMMERCIAL. Jcffcry James, farmrr Stcdman John, farmer, Crown farm Baker George, cooper & wheelwright, Leeks J ames, Duke of TVenington Stowmarket Gas Works Thorney green Lockwood Robert, machinist Sutton William. beer retailer Baby John, farmer & landowner, Ashes Palmer :Edwd. poulterer, Thorney gm Taylor William; farmer Boby Robcrt, farmer, Columbine hall Preston George, farmer Warner Charles, beer retailer & miller Burch Robert, Crown Pyman Robert, tailor Webb Francis, seed, hop, corn & coal Carter Thomas, farmer, Thorney green PymanSarah (Mrs.),farmer, Park farm merchant Colthorpe Wm. poulterer, Thorney g-rn Pyman 'Villiam, shopkeeper Wilden Robert, farmer Cuthbert Thomas, farmer, The Elms Rist David, carpenter, Thorney green Wilden Thomas, blacksmith

STRADBROKE (or STRADBROOK, anciently Strade- an upper school for 50 farmers' and tradesmen's sons, and a hrok,) is a small market town and parish, and polling-place lower school for 200 children of the labouring class. Here is for the Eastern division of the county, 7 miles east from a Baptist chapel. There are charities to the amount of £120 Eye, 7 south from Harleston, and !} north from Framling- per year, left for the repairs of the church and the expenses of ham, in Hoxne hundred and union, Eye county court dis· public worship, and £10 for the use of the poor. The Hoxne trict, Hoxnc rural deanery, Suffolk archdeaeonry, and Union 'Vorkhouse is situated here: it is a handsome building Norwich diocese. The church of All Saints stands in the of red brick, capable of accommodating 470 inmates, erected centre of the town: it bas a handsome lofty tower with G in 1836, standing about a mile and a quarter from the town. bells, built by John de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, whose There is a market held every 'l'uesday for corn, and a fair monogram is on a shield over the north porch: the nave for cattle the third Monday in June; also a statute or has a lofty timbered roof, and the chancd has been beau- session for the hiring of servants on the 2nd of October. tificd with an east window of t~tained glass, an ornamented Petty sessions are held at the Corn Hall every alternate roof, and an altar-piece, by a former vicar, the Rev. Thul'sday. Here is a police station, with an inspector 'V m. White, at his own expense: there is also an organ, and constable. Here is a branch rifle corps, the head erected by subo;cription in 1835, at a cost of £150, and a quarters being at Eye. A fire-engine was purchased in fine old font. The parish reg-ister dates from the year J 538. 18.13 by the parishioner!;'. The parish is in two manors: The living is a discharged vicarage, endowed with a lease of Sir E. C. Kerrison, Bart., is lord of the manor of Strad­ the rectorial tithes: it has an excellent vicarage-house, and broke and ~tubcroft, and Thomas G. Corbett, Esq., of G acres of glebe; the tithe is commuted at £1,050, but the Ebham Hall, Lincolnshire, is lord of the manor of Shelton clear annual value, after deducting rates and taxes, is about Hall-with-Wilby. The land belongs to Lord Henniker, £800; it was formerly in the gift of the Bi~hop of Ely, but Sir E. C. Kerrison, Bart., J. B. Stane, John Crab tree, T. G. the patronage has been transferred to the Bishop of Nor- Corbett, Thomas Borrelt, Thomas Hrandou, and Edward wich; the Rev. John Charles Ryle, n.A., of Christ Church, 'Vhite, Esqrs., Boy ton 'l'rustees, and other proprietors: Oxford, rural dean of Hoxne, is the present vicar, who pays Peter Cator, Esq., of Beckenham, Kent, is ownt>r also uf a yearly rent of £8 to the Hishop of Ely on account of the 50 acres of land, which he lets to the poor, at the rate of rectorial tithes, and a fine of £63 on the renewal of the £2 per acre, in small allotments, from which they derive lease evrry 21 years. There is a large school, built in 1863! considerable benefit, and which is free of all parocllinl

by voluntary contribution, at a cost of £1,3{)01 comprising charges. The soil is heavy, but g-rows excellent corn. The