DIRECTORY.) 8UFJ4'0LK. ALDRINGHAM. 29 shells and fossils are numerous. The chief crops are Public Elementary School (mixed), erected in I858, for wheat and barley. The area is lZ,575 acres; rateable So children; average attendance, 77; Miss lsabel value, £2,389; the population in I9II was 425· Bennett, mistress Parish Clerk, George Friend. Carrier to Woodbridge.-Frederick Claxon, daily Post, M. 0. & T. {).ffice.--'Miss Eliza G. Steward, sub­ postmistress. Letters received from W oodbridge at Police Station, George Garrod, constable in charge 5·55 & II.I5 a.m.; dispatched at 12.25 & 6.40 p.m Askin Thos. Cuming B.A.,B.Ch., M.D division, & medical officer,Warner"s .Mann Eliza (Mrs.), farmer Ellis Rev. Hy. Venn (rector), Rectory Almshouses Parker Robert George, grocer & drpr Kitchiner Stanley W. The Manse Claxon Frederick, carrier Sayers .Arthur J. grocer & draper Letts Sydney Edward, Cedar court Etnmens Henry, baker & farmer Smith Fred, pork butcher Stinson Mrs. Alderton lodge Foster William Isaac, Swan commer- Smith Jn. !brook, farmer,TheGrange Williama Emest Harcourt, Alderton cial inn & posting house; nearest Spall Arthur, wheelwright hall railway station, Felixstowe town, 6 Steward Eliza G. (Miss), grocer & COMMERCIAL. miles pGstmistress .Askin Thos.Cuming B.A.,B.Ch., M.D., Garrard William, butcher Thompson Frederick:, saddler surgeon, & medical officer & public Lacey Frederick Waiter, miller (wind Williams Ernest Harcourt, farmer, vaccinator, Nos. I & 2 districts, & steam) & threshing machine ownr .Alderton hall Woodbridge union & Admiralty sur- Lennard James, farmer & threshing Wingrave Louisa (Mrs.), Crown P.H geon &i agent, .Aldeburgh South machine ownell & landowner ALDHA:M is a parish and village 2! miles north-by- in bread on St. John's day. On Aldham Common east from Hadleigh terminal station of a branch of the j stands a monument to Dr. Rowland Taylor, sometime Great Eastern railway, in the Southern division of the rector of Hadleigh, and one of the victims of the county, Cosford hundred and union, Hadleigh county I religious persecution which raged in Queen Mary's court distriot and petty sessional division, rural deanery reign, who was burnt on the spot, 8 Feb. I554-5· Sir of Hadleigh, archdeaconry of Sudbnry and diocese of Ely. T. Barrett-Lennard l:iart. of Belhus, Essex, is lord of The church of St. Mary, erected about I350, is an the manor and the principal landowner. The soil is edifice of flint, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch chiefly clay; subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are wheat, and a circular western tower containing one bell: the barley and beans. The area is I,755 acres; rateable chancel retains a piscina, and there is an ancient oak value, £I,I94; the population in 19II was 207 in the lectern and some curiously-carved oak benches of the civil and 211 in the ecclesiastical parish. 15th century: the church, including the tower, was re- Letter Box cleared at 7·45 a.m. & 5-30 p.m. week days stored some years ago, and the chancel was partially only restored in I889: there are 150 sittings. The register Letters through Hadleigh, Suffolk, arrive at 8.8 a.m. dates from the year 1666. The living is a rectory, net The nearest money order & telegraph office is at yearly value [1go, including 4'5 acres of glebe and Elmsett, 1! miles distant residence, in the gift of Sir Thomas Barrett-Lennard Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1874, at a hart. and held since 1910 by the Rev. Herbert Bennett. cost of [245, for 45 children; average attendance, 38; The charities, amounting to 20s. yearly, are distributed I Miss Edith Game, mistress Bennett Rev.Herbert (rector),Rectory Gage Charles Johnson, farmer & Turner Robert Edwin, farmer, Fir overseer, Sampson lo. & Hill farm Tree & Priory farms COMMERCIAL. Hayward Charles, Sportsman P.H Turner' &bert Edwin, jun. steward Ford Ernest, farmer, cattle dealer Martin Rt. Luckey,farmer, Poplar hall to R. E. Turner esq & overseer, Oldham hall Sage James, farmer Wilding William, farmer Freeman Jsph. farmer,Frog Hall frm Turner Horace, farmer, Wolves farm ALDRINGHAM is a parish and straggling village, I and residence of G. Stuart Ogilvie esq. B.A., J.P. who mile south from Leiston station on the .Aldeburgh branch is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The of the Great Eastern railway, 4! south-east from Sax­ soil is light and mixed ; subsoil, sand and gravel. The mundham, and about 3! north-west from Aldeburgh, in chief crops are wheat, barley, beans, peas and roots. the South Eastern division of the county, Blyt·hing The area of .Aldringham with Thorpe is about r,6g3 hundred, petty sessional division and union, Framlin,;­ acres of sandy soil, 33 of water and I8 of foreshore; ham and Saxmundham oounty court district, rural rateable value, £2,I20; the population in 19II was 6..J2· deanery of South Dunwich, archdeaconry of Suffolk and Sexton, Frederick Spindler. diocese of Norwich. The hamlet .of Thorpe, which joins it on t·he eastern side, is ecclesiastically united with THORPE is an assemblage of about forty fishermen's this parish, the two being described as Aldring-ham­ huts, intermixed with a few tolerable houses and cum-Thorpe. The church of St. Andrew is an edifice of bungalows, and a coastguard stati'On, bordering on the cut :flint in the Early English style, consisting of nave, seashore. Here is a reading room well supplied with south porch, vestry and a western belfry containing one books, periodicals, games &c. and open to visitors on bell: the west end has been entirely rebuilt, a vestry payment of a small fee. The Gannon Memorial Mission added and the ohurch reseated, chiefly at the e'Xpense Room was built in 1899, at a cost of £7II, defrayed by of Lord Huntingfield, and in I896 new carved oak furni­ The Gannon Truet; it is licensed for public worship, ture was presented and*the east window filled with and will seat 100 persons. stained glass at the expense of the late Miss Gannon, Post & M. 0. Office.-John Masterson, sub-postmaster. in memory of her brother, who died in I894: the stained Letters arrive from Saxmundham at 5-I5 a.m. & I-35 west window was placed in I896, in memory of Miss p.m.; dispatched at 1.45 & 8.55 p.m.; sundays at Gannon : ~here are 120 sittings. The register dates 8.55 p.m. The nearest telegraph office is at Leist'on, from the year I538. The living is a vicarage, net yearly I mile distant value [195, with residence, in the gift of the Ohurch Post Office, Thorpe.-:Mrs. Amelia K. Smith, sub-post­ Patronage Society, and held since I907 by t'he Rev. mistress. Letters arrive from Leiston at 8 a.m. & Thomas William Sedgwick B.A. of Cambridge Uni­ (for callers only) at 3.40 p.m. Box cleared at 8.-45 versity. Here is a Baptist chapel, built in x8I2 and a.m. & 6.30 p.m. Aldringham is the nearest money seating 400, with a burial ground att-ached. In this order office & .Aldeburgh, 3 miles distant, the nearest parish are 34 almshouses, erected {1898-go) and endowed telegraph office by the late Mrs. Ogilvie. On the left of the road, near the village of Thorpe, is an inclosure called Chapel Coastguard Station, John Ayres, petty officer, & 4 men Field, in which are still some remains of a chapel long Public Elementary School (mixed), built in 1875, & since fallen into decay. At Aldrington Green is a enlarged in I 894. for 200 children ; average attendance, barrow. .Aldringham House is the seat of Frank I30; Adolphus Oscar Lay, master; Rev. Thomas Wm. Garrett esq. C.E., J.P. Sizewell Hall is the property Sedgwick B.A. correspondent to the man11gers • .ALDRIN GRAM. Stanford Edward, The Stone house Franklin John, head gardener to Edward Stanford esq Garrett Frank M.Inst.C.E., J.P. COMVBBCIA.L. Kemp Alfred, carpenter Aldringham house Bridges John, head gardener to Frank Kemp Graeme, under steward to G­ Ogilvie G. Stuart B.A., J.P. Size- Garrett esq. J.P Stuart Ogilvie esq. B . .A., J.P well hall Coe Arthur, blacksmith Kemp Harry, farmer, Hill house Sedgwick Rev. Thomas William B..A. Damant Frederick William, farmer, Oxborrow John, miller (wind) (vicar), Vicarage I Pantiles farm .