260· LO:SG MELFORO. . [KELLy'a Martyn family, from whom the estate passed to the 'Yeller-Poley WaIter .Johnson esq. house, Spaldings, next to Cha.rles Westropp esq. and subse­ Boxford, Colchester quently to Charles Henry Westropp esq. the present The Chairmen, for the time being, Qf the owner; the house pleasantly situated at the south end Urban & Melford Rural District Councils, are ex-officio of the village in beautiful grounds, contains much of thE: magistrates ancient oak work originally in the Martyn chapel. The Cletl'k to the Magistrates, Lionel George Fisher Manor of Melford was given by Earl Alfric to the abbey Petty sessions are held at the Melford Police station of Bury St. Edmunds about the year 1050, and after the every alternate friday, at II a.m. The following places dissolution of the abbey the manor was granted by are included in the petty sessional division' :-Ac,ton. Henry VIII. llIbout 1546, to Sir : there , Boxted, , Cavendish, Chilton, are three manors, viz.-, and Oockfield, COTllard Great, Cornard Little, Glemsford, the Rectory Manor. The Rev. Sir William Hyde Parker HllIrtest, Laven'ham, La.wshall, Melford, , bart. M.A. Edward Starkie Bence' esq. and the rector, Preston, , Somerton, Stanstead, Walding­ who are lords' of the manors, Charles !Henry Westropp field Gre'at, Waldingfield Little esq. and William Jennings Mills, are the principal land­ owners. The soil is chiefly heavy land; subsoil, mostly MELFORD RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL. clay. The chief crops are whea,t, barley and oats. The Meets at Sudbury Workhouse on alternate thursdays at area comprises 5,281 acres of land and 34 of water; I p.m. rateable value, £9,873; the population in I!891 was 3,253· Chairman, Rev. Sir William Hyde Parker bart. },LA. By a Local Government Board Order which ~me into Melford Hall, R.S.O operation March 25th, 1885, part of Acton was added to this parish. Clerk, Henry Orabb Canham, Friars skeet, Sudbury Sexton, WaIter S. Pearman. Treasurer, Major Bevan, Bury & Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Medical Officer of Health, John Sinclair Holden M.D. SI Post, M. O. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, S. B. F!I'iars street, Sudbury & IlliSurance & Annuity Office (R6ilway Sub-Office. Sanitary Inspector, John Sykes Robinson, Melford Letters should have R.S.O. Suffolk added). John County Police Station, Henry Hunt, inspector, & I Thoma,s Keeble, pO&tmastter. Leliters arrive at 4.45 constable a.m. & by rail fr(}m Lond(}n at 9 a.m. & 5 p.m.; dis­ patched at II.25 a.m. & 2.45, 7.5 & 7.55 p.m.; sun­ PUBLIC OFFICERS. days, arrive at 4.45 a.m. & dispatched at 7.5 p.m Assessor & Collector of Taxes & Collector of Rates &; Wall Letter Boxes. Hospital, cleared 8.30 i& 10.10 a.m. & Registrar of Births & Deaths for ,th-e Melford Sub­ 6.30 p.m.; St. Oatherine's road, cleared 8,4° & 10.20 District of the Sudbury Union, Samuel Richold a.m. & 12.10 & 6.35 p.m.; Station road, cleared 8.30 Certifying Factory Surgeon, Medical Officer & Public & 10.15 a.m. & 12 & 6.30 p.m.; :Bridg-e sotreet, cleared Vaccina1tor No. 2 District, Sudbury Union, Joseph at '5.50 p.m.; sunday, 6.50 p.m.; Hall Street, cleared Alphonsus HOi'sflord L.R.C.P.Edin 8.40 & 10.210 a.m. 12. IQ & 6.35 p.m.; High Street, Clerk to Commissioners of Taxes for the Hundred of cleared 10. IS a·.m. & 6. IS p.m Babergh, Lion-el Geor!!e Fisher Inlandi Revenue Officer, Horace E. Peat COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR MELFORD PETTY Sanitary Inspector to Lmg Melf-ord District of Sudbury SESSIONAL DIVISION. Rural District Council, Frank Higginson S'tewllrd (}f the Manors of Melford & Melford Rectory. Barnardiston Col. Nathaniel D.L. The Ryes, near Sud­ Lionel Goorge :Fisher bury, chairman Town Crier, Charles Algor PllIrker Rev. SiT William Hyde bart., M.A. Melford hall, Long Melford R.S.O SCHOOLS. Grov~, AlIen Elliston esq. The BaIIingd()n, Sudbury National, €rected in 1861 & enlarged in 1895, for 200 Almack Henry Horn esq. Melford RS.O boys, 200 girls & 100 infants'; average attendance, 140 Barnardiston Major NathI. Walter, The Ryes, nr. Sudbury boys, 148 girls & 88 infants; John Phillips, master; Hence Edward Starkie esq. D.L Miss Elizabeth Robertson, girls' mistress; Miss Ethel Biddell William esq. Laven~ hall, R.S.O Story, infants' mistress esq~ • Brcwn WaIter Thomas D.L. Tostock Place, Bury National (mixed), Bridge street, erected by Sir William St. Edmunrls, • Parker bart. in 1863, for 48 children; average atten~ Burke Lieut.-Oal. WaIter St. George R.E. Auberies, dance, 28; Miss Phyllisl Whent, mistress near Sudbury Natdonal (irufants'), St. Catherine's rood, built in 1895. Gwilt Robert esq. Stowehill, Ha;rtest, Bury St. Edmunds for 125 children; average attendance, 93; Miss Ger­ Langdon William John esq. Salters' Hall, Sudbury trude Knight, mistreslj Majendie James Henry Alex. esq. Hedingham Castle, Mrs. Elizabeth Neave & Sons' caibs meet all trains H alst-ead, Essex Mattingly RO'bert, The Chestnuts, Gt. Cornatl'd, Sudbury Great Eastern Railway, M. Bedford, station master Methold Fredetrick John esq. Thorne court, Shimpling Oarriers from Sudbury to Glemsford pass through daily; Packer Rev. Arlh. rectory, Dr. Bury St.Edmunds Arthur Eary & Harry Rule, from Long Melford WeIler-Poley John George elSq. B