HACHESTON, a Scattered Village on the Woodbridge Road, Four Miles S
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868 FRAMLJNGHAM. (LOES HUNDRED.) Wightman Samuel (and coach) Well and :Fri., and to Fressingfield, Wed., elose square from the White Horse. WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS. Wm. Meen, to Ipswich, Woodbridge, Keer Manning, 1\Iarket hill &c., Mon. and Wed., and Norwich,. Lankester Edward, Church street Tues. and Sat. COACH AND OMNIBUS Wm. Coates, from the Crown to Nor From the Inns daily to Ipswich, Wood wich, Tues. and Sat. bridge, &c., at {j morning, and to Jas. Sawyer, to Ipswich, Mon., Wed.,. Halesworth at two aftemcon. and Fri., and to Halesworth, Tues., CABB.IEB.S. I Thurs., and Sat., from the Crown Alfred Hart, to Ipswich, Mon., Wed., and Anchor HACHESTON, a scattered village on the Woodbridge road, four miles S. by E. of Framlingham, has in its parish 510 souls, and 1726 acres of land, including the hamlet of Glevering, which is dis tant nearly six miles N.N.W. ofWoodbridge, and has only 11 in· habitants. Gkvering Hall, a large and handsome mansion, in an extensive park on the north-east bank of the river Deben, was the seat of the late Andrew Arcedeckne, Esq., who owned a great part of the parish. Bloomville Hall, a neat white-brick mansion, belongs to the Duke of Hamilton, and is occupied by a farmer; and Mr. T. Gregory has an estate and a neat house, near the church. Haches ton has ajair, chiefly for pedlery, &c., held on the 12th and 13th of November, pursuant to a charter granted in the 2nd of Henry Ill.,. to the Prior and Convent of Hickling, in Norfolk, who were appro priators of this parish, except Glevering, which was given to Leis ton priory. The Church (All Saints) is an ancient structure on a bold eminence, and near it is a small mausoleum, belonging to the Arcedecknes. The vicarage, valued in K.B. at £6. ls. 11-!d., is consolidated with Parham vicarage. Fredk. Corrance, Esq., is patron and impropriator, and the Rev. C. T. Corrance is the incum bent. The rectorial tithes have been commuted for £278. 12s. 6d. per annum, and the vicarial tithes for .£169. 3s. 9d. The Tow11 Lands, 14A., let for £25 a year, have been vested from an early period for parochial and charitable uses. The rent is carried to thw account of the poor rates, and partly distributed in coals and cloth ing, by way of addition to the ordinary parochial relief. A house,. occupied by paupers, was built on part of the estate many years ago. The poor have the followiBg yearly rent-charges, viz., £2. 14s., left by Mrs. W am er for a distribution of bread once a fortnight; two of .£1. 6s., left by :Maximilian Smyth and Edmund Coleman, for weekly distributions of bread; and one of 13s. 4d., and another of 12s., given by unknown donors, and distributed on Easter Tuesday. In 1701, Richard Porter left a cottage for the residence of a School master, and a yearly rent-charge of £12 out of his estate here, for the education of 12 poor boys of Hacheston and Parham. The schoolhouse was rebuilt in 1825. The churchwardens and princi pal inhabitants appoint the master, and his annuity is paid out of an estate belonging to the Earl of Rochford. Here is also a School, which was built by the late A. Arcedeckne, Esq., and now chiefly supported by his widow. .