Suffolk. Saxmundham

, DmECTORY.] SUFFOLK. SAXMUNDHAM. 297 was placed as a memorial to John Jillings esq.: there chief crops a.re wheat, barley and! turnips. The area is are 120 sittings, 100 being free. The register dates from 1,317 acres; assessable value, [.1,287; and the population the yeaI' 1559. The living is a rectory, net yearly value in 1891 was 159. £230, with 40 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of I Letters through Bury St. Edmunds arrive at 7 a.m. & the Marquess of Bristol, and held since 1885 by the Rev. 6.45 p.m.; sundays II.25 a.m. Letter Box cleared a\ Henry Ingate Kilner M.A. of St. John's College, Cam- 6.45 a.m. &; 6.40 p.m. &; II.25 a.m. sundays. :Barrow bridge. There are charities of about ['15 yearly, which is the nearest money order\ &; telegraph office, 21 miles are distributed by the rector and churchwardens. The distant Marquess of Bristol, who is lord of the manor, and C. National School (mixed), for 40 children; average atten Morbey esq. of The Moat, Soham, are the principal land- . iance, 30; Mrs. Martha Annie Riseley, mistress owners. The soil is good mixed; subsoil, clay. The Railway S.tation, Henry William Fletcher, station master Kilner Rev. Henry Ingate M.A.Rectory I Jillings George, farmer, The Lodge I Jillings Octavius, farmer, Honey hill SAXMUNDHAM is a well-built market town and 3 p.m.; London, Ipswich &; all parts, 6 p.m. Deli- parish, head of a county court district, in the North veries commence at 7, ,8.30 & 3.45 &; 6.15 p.m. Dis- Eastern division of the comlty, Plomesgate union and patches :-Dunwich, Westleton, Darsham, Peasenhall hundred, Blything petty sessional division, rural deanery &; Yoxford, 4.30 a.m.; .Aldeburgh, Leiston &; .AIdring- of Orford, archdeaconryof Suffolk and diocese of Norwich, ham, 4.30 a.m.; Knoddishall-Sternfield, by foot mes· with a station on the Great Eastern railway and junction of sengers, 6 a.m.; Rendham, Swe,fling, Bruisyard, Kel. the Aldborough branch, 89 miles from London, 12 north- sale, Theberton, Benhall, Farnham, Stratford, Great east from Woodbridge, 7 west from Framlingham and Glemham &; Snape, 6 a.m.; London, Ipswich &C. 9.15 about 7 north-west from Aldborou~h: two well-wooded a.m.; Rendham, Swefling, Kelsale, Benhall, Farnham, hills rise on the east and west sides of the town, the Stratford, Great Glemnam &; local generally, 12 noon;- principal street of which runs north and south, on the road London &; all parts, 12.15 p.m.; London &; Eastern from London to Yarmouth, and on the banks of a rivulet counties, 3.10 p.m.; London &;c. 4.45 p.m.; all Nor- which flows into the river .AIde. The town is lighted with folk &; North &; Midland counties, 7.15 p.m.; London gas by a company; the water supply is obtained from &; all parts, IQ p.m. Rural letter carriers are dispatched wells. The church of St. John the Baptist, standing on the to Friston, Great Glemham, Benhall, Farnham &c.; rise of a hill on the south-east side of the town, is of flint Knoddishall, Kensale, CarlOOn &;c.; Bruisyard, Rend- with stone dressings, in the Decorated and Perpendicular ham &;c. at 6 a.m. returning about 7 p.m. The office styles, consisting of chancel, nave with open roof, aisles is open for telegraph business from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. &:; and an embattled western tower with pinnacles containing for money order business &; inland revenue stamps from 6 bells: there are several monuments of the Long family 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; sunday, for telegrams &; stamps. 8 by Nollekens, and one by Sir R. Westmacott to the Right to ID a.m Hon. Sir Charles Long G.C.B., P.C., F.RS. created baron Parcels Post.-Parcels receivedl from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Farnborough 8 July, 1826, d. 17 Jan. 1838: the edifice delivered with letters was thoroughly restored in 1873, at a cost of about [.2,000, Post, M. 0., S. B. &; Annuity & Insurance Office, Statio:a defrayed by voluntary contributions, and in 1880 a clock road.-Mrs. Elizabeth Dearing Harvey sub-postmis~ striking upon the tenor bell was placed in the tower, given tress. Box cleared at 8.45 a.m. &; 12:5 & 9.$ p.m. by his family in memory o~ Samuel Flick, for many years week days only ehurchwarden; the stained east window was given by the Wall Letter Boxes.-Railway station, cleared at 8.45 & late James ~outh"l\'ell esq.; and the!e are memorial wi~- II.5 a.m. &; 12.10, 3.5, 7.15 &; 9.5 p.m. week days only; dows to MaJor Long, erected by hls brother officers m North Entrance, cleared at 8,4° & II a.m. &; 12 noon & 1873, and William Long esq. of Hurts Hall, besides others: 3, 7 &; 9 p.m. week days only the stone reredos is a memorial to Mr. John Charles Crampin: there are 460 sittings. The register dates from OOUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR BLYTHING PETTY the .year 1538. The living is a rectory, net yearly value SESSIiONAL DIVISION. £188, with 29 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift The cha·ir is taken by the magistrates in rotation. of William Evelyn Long esq. and held since 1891 by Stradbroke Earl of, Henham hall, Wangford the Rev. George Frederick Richardson M.A. of Trinity Blois Sir Ralph Barrett Macnaghten bart. Cockfield halI~ College, Cambridge, and surrogate. There is a Con· Yoxford, Saxmundham goregational chapel, built in 1850, with 400 sittings, and a Babington Francis Evans esq. South lodge, Halesworth Particular Baptist with 180 sittings. The Wesleyans hold Bence-Lambert Col. Guy Lennox, Thorington hall, Dars- their services in the Juvenile Oddfellows' Hall, which seats ham, Saxmundham 100. The Salvation Army have a hall seating 150. The Borrett Thomas Percy esq. ,Saxmundham Loyal Fidelity Lodge of Oddfellows 1\1. U. is held at the Bonham Lieut.-Col. Harry WaIter Musgrave, Arthur's " Queen's Head" every alternate Monday: it numbers 450 club, London SW financial and a few hon. members: a+tached to this lodge Brooke John Kendall esq. M.A. Sibton park, Yoxford~ is a juvenile lodge, numbering 185 members, which is held Saxmundham at the Juvenile Oddfellows' Hall, Fairfield road, every Doughty Henry Montagu esq.Theberton haIl,Saxmundham month. The Rational Sick and Burial Association has a Edwards Henry Richard esq. Centre Cliffe lodge,Southwld branch here, which meets at the Juvenile Oddfellows' Hall. Ewen Rev. John NQrris Frederiok M.A. ReydQn hall. The Fire Brigade, established in January, 1875, has one Wangford R.8.0 manual engine and all necessary appliances. Adjoining I Flick Robert esq. Theberton grange, Saxmundham the Bell hotel is a large room, known as "the Market Garrett Frank esq. Aldringham house, Saxmundham Hall" ; it is now in the hands of trustees, and is used Garrett George Herbert, Sna,pe Bridge, Wickham Market. for public purposes. The market for grain is held on Girling Thomas esq. Frostenden, Wang-ford RS.O Wednesdays; thtlre is also a large repository sale for Holland Francis Egbei"t, Satis house, Yoxford cattle on alternate Wednesdays, held oy Messrs. Flick Huntingfield Lord, Heveningham hall, Yoxford and Son, which, from its central position in the county, Levett-Scrivener Egerton Bagot R esq. Sibton abbey~ is well attended. There were formerly two yearly fairs, Yoxford, Saxmundham but both are now obsolete. Mrs. Crampin's charity con- Lomax Thomas esq. M.A., D.L. Grove park, Yoxford, sists of £2,000 invested in stocks in the names of the Saxmundham . rector and churchwardens; the dividends are applied in Long William Evelyn esq. Hurts hall, Saxmundham providing coals, blankets, clothing and money, to be dis- Parry-Crooke Douglas esq. RA., D.L. Darsham houser tributed among the poor on the 31st of Dec. and 19th Saxmundham of March. There are also several smaller bequests for Price Capt. Geo. Edward RN. Carlton hall, Saxmundham the repair of the church and use of the poor, amounting Remnant Frederick Mander esq. The Grange, Wenhaston to about £30 yearly. Hurts Hall, originally built in the Vernon-Wentworth Thomas Frederick Charles, Black· 15th century, but entirely destroyed by fire in 1890, and heath, Friston, Saxmundham rebuilt in 1893, is now a mansion in the Elizabethan Taylor Lieut.-Col. Frederick Hy. Red house, Wrentham. style; it stands in a park of 200 acres, at the south end The Chairman, for the time being, of the Plomesgate- of the town, and is the ·seat of William Evelyn Long esq. Rural District Council, is an ex-officio magistrate J.P. lord of the manor and principal landowner. The Clerk to the Magistrates, Willett Ram, Halesworth parish of Saxmundham contains 1,101 acres of land and Petty sessions are held at the Market Hall every alternate 6 of water; rateable value, £6,495; the population in thurs. at 12.30 &; Halesworth every alternate thurs. The 1891 was 1,371. following places, included in this petty sessional division, Parish Clerk, William G. Orlord. are attached to this bench :-Aldringham, Benhall, Post, M. O. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, S. R &; Kelsale-cum-Carlton, Darsha.ID, Farnham, Friston, Annuity &; Insurance Office John Wint, postmaster. Hazlewood, Knodishall, Leiston, Middleton, Peasenhall, Letters arrive from all parts at 2 &; 8 a.m.; London &; Saxmundham, Sibton, Snape, Sternfield, Theberton., Ipswich, II.25 a.m.; .AIdeburgh &; Leiston, via Ipswich, Westleton &; Yoxford.

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