RENDHAM, a Pleasant Village in the Vale of the Aide, 4!- Miles E
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PLOMESGATE HUNDRED. 521 RENDHAM, a pleasant village in the vale of the Aide, 4!- miles E. of Framlingham and 3 miles W. of Saxmundham, has in its pa rish 453 souls, and 1721A. 1R. 25P. of rich, loamy land, belonging to ilie Thellusson, Collett, Page, Webber, Williams, Bruce, and other ~a.milies. J. Crabtree, Esq., is lord of the manor of Barnies, in which the copyholds pay arbitrary fines. The Earl of Stradbroke's. llRDor of Bruisyard Hall extends into this parish. The Church (St. Micbael,) was 1·epaired and partl~ repewed in 1851. The living i~ a vicarage, which was certified at £36, but has now a yearly rent charge of£ LOI, in lieu of small tithes. The trustees of the late Rev. C. Simeon are patrons, and the Rev. Rowland Morgan is the incum bent. The impropria.te rectory was sold to the landowners about. forty years ago. Here is a neat Independent Chapel, (with a house for the minister,) ereeted in 1750, in lieu of a smaller one at Swe fl.ing, which was built in 1650. The poor have three cottages. built on waste land, given by the lord of the manor, and about 3A. of land, purchased in 1646. The cottages are occupied nearly rent free, and the land is let for £4. 10s. a year, which is added to the poor rates. In 1704, Thos. Neal, Esq., left a yearly rent-charge of .£~. 1Os. out of land in Bramfield, for the support of a free school at Rendham, for poor children, and 10s. a yl;lar to provide them with books. This charity is applie.J. in aid of the National School, which was built by subscription in 1841. PosT from Saxmundham. Andrews John, grocer and draper, Harsant John, shopkeeper and tailor Post Office Harsant Mrs. schoolmistress Barbam Henry, bricklayer Morgan·Rev Rowland, rector ofWattis.- Bicker Samuel, butcher field & vicar of Rendham, Vicarage Button Wm. shopkeeper Pallant John, gent. Cottage Chaplin James, bricklayer and vict. Self Stephen, gardener White Horse Studd James, carpenter, &c Cooper George, parish clerk FARMERS. Cooper Wm. blacksmith Button Wm. 11 Faiers George Daniels Henry, boot and shoe maker Chandler Samuel, White House Douglas Rev Cs. curate, Grove House Cone J ames 11 Gooch John Easthougb Charles, wheelwright Cross James 11 Shibley Jonas Girling and White, auctioneers and Girling Thomas 11 Stanton Robert estate agents, (and at Peasenhall) IMeadows John, Grove House Girling Thos. auctioneer, &c. (G. and Row William W.) and land agent to Chas. Austin, CARRIER, Collin Snelling, to Ipswich, ~ Esq., Rookery Wednesday Harrison Rev John, (Independent) • SAX"MUNDHAM, is a small well-built market town, consisting chiefly of one long street, pleasantly situated in the vale of a rivulet,. which runs southward to the Aide, 7 miles N.W. of Aldebnrgh, 1~ miles N.E. of Ipswich, and 90 miles N.E. of London. In 1856 it. will have a Station on a railway which is now forming, and which will extend southward to 'Voodbridge and Ipswich, and northward to Halesworth, &c. Its parish contains 1180 inhabitants, and nearly 1400 acres, of which only 1102 acres are rateable. Wm. Long~ Esq., owns most of the soil, and is lord of the manor of Hurts, which comprises all the parish except the small m&.nor of Swans, which belonged to the late Dudley Long North, Esq.• and is the site of~ .