DIRECTORY.] 721 EAST BERGHOLT. [.j Free school in this parish, and £.500 were also left by Mr. amounted in 1861 to 678, and the parish contains 2,156 Edward Holland, the late proprietor of Benhall Lodge, for acres, of various soils, but chiefly clay. the same purpose. There are also National and Infant schools at Benhall Green, and a school at Benhall Street, supported by the Rev. Edmund IIollond, M.A.: the number PosT OFFICE.-Isaac Batho, receiver. Letters arrive of children educated at these establishments exceeds 100. from Saxmundham at 6.30 a.m.; dispatched at 6.30 p.m. Benhall Lodge, situated in a large and beautifully wooded The nearest money order office is at Saxmundham park, is the residence of the Rev. Edmund Holland, M.A., Free School, David Reynolds, jun. master who is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The CARRIER.-Edmunds, passing through to , tuesday chief crops are wheat, barley, beans, &c. The population & friday Blakiston Rev. Horace Mann, B.D. Burrows Thomas, farmer N ewson George, brick maker [vicar], Vicarage Capon James, bailiff to Rev. E. Holland Plant Hobert, farmer & cattle dealer Burrows Mr. Jarnes Chambers William, farmer Hackham Rufus, relieving officer & re. Ford Mr. John Denny Waiter, hurdle maker gistrar of births & deaths Hollond Rev. Edmund, M.A. Benhall Easter John, farmer Reynolds David, sen. miller & farmer lodge; & 33 Hyde Park gardens, Elmy Durrant, gardener Robinson Georgc, farmer London 10 Freeman Edward, farmer Robinson Robert, coach builder (estab- Watkins Rev. Edwin Arthur [C"urate] Garnham George, farmer lished, 1772) COMMERCIAL. Iloward Samuel, farmer Scales Herbert, farmer Adams Robert, farmer, Old lodge Leggett Mary (Miss), blacksmith Seaman George, farmer & brick maker Batho Isaac, shoe maker Mills Robert, shoe maker Taylor John, saddler Bowen William Alien, steward to Rev. Newby'James, shoe maker Toll er J olm, farmer E. Holland N ewman Benjamin, gardener Tunmer J oseph Hare, grocer & draper

. BENTLEY is a parish, and station on the Eastern Union ' R. Kecne is lord of three, and A. vV. J. Deane, Esq., of one. Railway, and on a small rivulet, a feeder of the Stour, 63~ The principal landowners are the lords of the manors and miles from London, 6 south-west from Ipswich, and 7 ~ Mr. Robert Daking. The soil is of a mixed nature j subsoil, south-east from Hadleigh, in the Eastern division of the sand and g-ravel. The chief crops are wheat and barley. The county, Samford hundred and union, Ipswich county court population in 1861 was 453, and the area is 2,801 acres. district, rural deanery of Samford, arcluleacunry of Suffolk, Parish Clerk, Robert Rolf'e. and Norwich diocese. Here is the junction of the Hadleigh branch with the Eastern Union Railway. The church of St. Mary has a square tower: the interior of the nave was re- PILLAR LETTER Box, near Mr. Lay's,c1 eared at 4.45 p.m. stored in 1856, and a new aisle added in 18ilS. The registers Letters received from Ipswich, which is the nearest money are irregular; earliest date, 1678. The living is a discharged order office vicarage, yearly value £190 15s., in the gift of the Rev. C. INSURANCE AGENT.-Royal Farmers'~ General Fire, E. R. Keene, and held by the Rev. Henry Ruck Keene, Life~ Hail, J. C. Bolton, Water mill M.A., of Uni,·ersity College, Durham. The National schools National School, Mr. John Gadge, master were built in 1854. There are fo1u manorsj the Rev. C. E. Railway Station, John E. Ellis, station master Gosnall John Walford, esq. The Lodge Daking Robert, farmer & landowner Moss Mary (Mrs.), Railway tavern Keene Rev. Henry Ruck, M.A. Vicarage Goocher Charles, farmer Reynolds George, farmer Alderton 'Villiam, farmer Gosnell J. Walford, farmer Reyno]dfl Jacob, farmer Cooper Charles, farmer Hawkins Thomas, farmer, The Hall Warden Jonathan, Tankard Cooper Thomas, Case is Altered inn Lay James, farmer Wood William, carrier

EAST BERGHOLT is a parish, small town, and polling English prevaili!. St. Jolm's was given by Henry II. to place for the Eastern division of the county, Samford hun- the Templars, and afterwards to the Knights of St. dred and union, in county court district of Hadleigh, rural John of Jerusalem, but was granted to the Earl of Oxford deanery of Samford, Suffolk archdeaconry, and diocese of in the 36th of Henry VIII. These man6rs were for­ Norwich, pleasantly situated near the north bank of the· merly held by the Hankeys. The principal landowners navigable river Stour, 2 miles north-west from Manning- are Charles A. D. Halford, Esq., and Messrs. J. Spurling, tree station, 61 from London, 6 south-east from Hadleigh, C. Martin, and John D. Walford. The soil is mixed; sub­ and 9~ south-west from Ipswich: it tormerly had a market, soil, gravel and sand. The chief crops are wheat, barley and still has a fair for toys on the last Wednesday in July. and oats. In 1861 the population was 1,397; area, 3,063 'l'he church of St. Mary is a neat structure, in the Decorated acres. Gothic style : its tower was never finished, the sums given Parish Clerk, Step hen Sage. in the year 1522 having been inadequate for its completion: the 5 bells hang in a sort of cage in the churchyard. The PosT 0FFICE.-William Heckford, sub-postmaster. Let- living is a rectory, yearly value £820, in the gift of Em- ters arrive by mail cart from at 6 a.m.; dis- manuel College, Cambridge, ami held by the Rev. J oseph patched at 7 p.m. Day mail letters are delivered at Woolley, B.D., formerly fellow of that college. Here are 1 p.m. from . The nearest post office savings chapels for Independents, Primitive Methodists, and Roman bank & money order office is at Dedham Catholics. There are many charitable bequests left for the INSURANCE AGENTS:- benefit of the poor. In 1562 here were three water-mills, Royal Exchange Fire 9" Life, Edward Cook, Hadleigh but only one of them now remains. St. Mary's Abbey, Sun Fire~ Life, William Sidney Calvert situated in a large and finely wooded park, is a convent of Police Station, John Gobbett, sergeant Benedictine Nuns, originally established at Brussels in the Assessor, John Lott reign of Queen Elizabeth; driven by the troubles of the AssU!tant Overseer, Abrallam Reynolds French Revolution to in the year 1794, they settled ScnooJ.s :- at Winchester till the year 1857, when they purchased this National (girls), Miss Elizabeth Gilbert, mistress property: these ladies, besides the observance of the duties Mrs. Letitia Dyke's Endowed National (built 1831), prescribed by the Benedictine rule, conduct a first class Peter Wright, master establishment for young ladies, and support a school for poor CARRIERS :- children. A chapel for the friends and visitors of the estab- Williarn Folkard, to Colchester, wednesday& saturday; to lilihment and neighbourhood is opened to the public on Ipswich, tuesday & friday, from his own house Sundays. William Sidney Calvert, Esq., is lord of the four John Dale, to Ipswich, tuesday & friday; to Colchester, manors called Old Hall, Illaries, Spencer's, and Comman- Wednesday & saturday, from his own house dree, otherwise St. John's, in which the custom of Borough Alfred M ann, to Manningtree railway station, daily PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Chamberlain Mr. Henry Halford Charles Augustus D. esq Barker Mr. Frank Sizer Chapman Mr. George Hughes Misses Blyth Mr. Thomas Chisnall Mr. Charles Lemon Mr. William Bowen Capt. J aim Watts Cole Mr. Abraham Lott Mr. Thimas Bowen Miss Edwards Mr. Joseph Lott Mr. William Brenan Mrs. St. Mary's abbey Everett Mr. Isaac Manning Frederick, esq Brenan Rev. Jeffery, St. Mary's abbey Folkard Mr. Francis May Miss Calvert Mrs Fryatt Mr. Benjamin Miller Miss Calvert William Sidney, esq Green Mr. John Parker Mr. George •