7 180 HENGRAVE. bUFFOLK. (KELLY S colored freestone with a canopy supported on six lord of the manor and sole landowner, is a Tudor man:. pillars, and a recumbent effigy to Sir Thomas Kytson, sion, standing in a park of 300 acres, erected in I525 by ob. I54o, and Margaret (Donington), his relict, pre- Sir Thomas Kytson, and a fine example of the archi­ viously widow of Sir Richard Long, of Shengay, Cambs. tecture of that period, the gateway in particular being and eventual!ly third wife of John (Bourchier ), second of singular beauty and in excellent preservation: the Earl of Bath; she died in London, 20 Dec. I56I, and was domestic chapel has a large window containing some buried here I2 Jan. I561-2 : there are some other monu- rare and ancient Flemish glass: the interior of the ments. The register dates from the year I56I. The mansion generally has undergone careful restoration living is a rectory, consolidated with Flempton, joint net at the hands of the present owner. The soil is good yearly value £3oo, with IO acres of glebe, in the gift of mixed; subsoil, chalk, gravel and clay. The chief John Wood esq. and held since I896 by the Rev. Robert crops are wheat and barley. The area is 887 acres of Woods Worhley B.A. of Caius College, Cambridge, who land and IO of water; rateable value, £I,22I; the popu­ resides at Flempton. The Almshouses, consisting of lation in I9II was 190. four tenements, were erected and endowed by Sir Post Office.-Arthur Cooper, sub-postmaster. Letters Thomas Kytson with £3o yearly, and subsequently through Bury St. Edmunds arrive at 6.50 a.m. ; dis- endowed by Elizabeth, his widow, with £4 a year, to patched at 12.40 & 6.35 p.m.; sundays, II.I5 a.m. provide twelve gowns for twelve of the poorest old Culford, about I! miles distant, is the nearest money women in the twelve surrounding parishes, besides order & telegraph office f!everal smaller provisions. Hengrave Hall, the property The children of this parish attend the school at Flempton and residence of John Wood esq. M.A., M.P., D.L., J.P. Police Station, Herbert Hurst, constable Laver William COMMERCIAL. Petch William, head gamekeeper to .Macgowan John, Mill house Fuller Miss Beatrice, dress maker John Wood esq. (letters through Morton Mrs. Gayles Hunt Robert, farm steward to John Risby) Nichol Mrs Wood esq. Grange farm Tuck Jesse, head gardener to John Wood John M.A., M.P., D.L., J.P. Laver William, land agent to John Wood esq Hengrave hall; & Carlton club Wood esq. M.A., M.P., D.L., J.P Whipps George Frederick, miller S W & Bachelors' club W, London Morton Arthur,farmer, Stanchels frm (water), Hengrave mill liEN HAM is a civil parish, united, for ecclesiastical oaks: the family of Rous, which is of great antiquity, purposes, to Wangford-with-Reydon, 4 miles south-east was formerly of Stradbroke, whence they removed to from the Brampton station on the Ipswich and Lowestoft the vicinity of Dennington and afterwards to Bading­ section of the Great Eastern railway, I mile nort·h from ham; in the reign of Edward HI. the head of the Blythburgh station on the Southwold railway, 4 west- family married Miss Hobart, heiress of the Dennington north-west from Southwold and 4! east from Halesworth, estate, where they resided until I545• when Henham was in the Northern division of tha county, hundred, petty purchased by Sir Anthony Rous kt. The Earl of Strad­ sessional division and union of Blything and county court broke is lord of the manor and sole landowner. The dist·rict of Halesworth. Henham Hall, the seat of the soil is mixed; subsoil, various. The chief crops are Earl of Stradbroke C.B., C.V.O., A.D.C. is a stately wheat and barley. The area is 1,798 acres of land and mansion, erected in I793· from the designs of James 5 of water; rateable value, £1,38I; the population in Wyatt., in place of the old Elizabethan house destroyed I9II was I39 'by fire. in .I773• and ha,; been greatly beautified under Letters through Wangford, Suffolk, the nearest money the duectlon of Edward M. Barry esq. ~.A. who \ order & telegraph office 1l miles distant from the Hall added terraces of Portland stone: there 1s a park ' of nearly I,ooo acres, containing many fine old The children of this parish attend the school at Wangford Stradbroke Earl of C.B., C.V.O.,V.D., COJIIMERCIAL. !Dukes Maurice, farmer, Valley farm A.D.C., D.L., J.P., F.R.S. (VICe- Broom Herbert, agent to the Earl of Thompson Alick Gordon, farm bailiff Admiral of the Coast), Henham Stradbroke, & valuer, Henham park to the Countess of Stradbroke hall; & Carlton club S W & Drummond Duncan, farm bailiff tu Bachelors' club W, London the Earl of Stradbroke, Park farm 1 HENLEY is a parish and scattered village on the Ips- Thomas Vere esq. in 1766 bequeathed a sum of [2oo, wich road, 3 miles east-by-north from Claydon station afterwards invested in £3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities; on the Ipswich and Norwich section of the Great Eastern out of the dividends therefrom arising £3 is divided among nilway and 4~ north from Ipswich, in the South Eastern the poor parishioners, Ios. given to the parish clerk, and division of the county, Bosmere hundred and Bcsmere the residue to the vicar, for a sermon on St. Thomas• and Olaydon petty sessional division and union, Ipswich day. The soil is heavy in some pa-rts, others mixed; county court district, rural deanery of Claydon. arch- subsoil, clay and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, deaconry of Suffolk and diocese of Norwich. The church barley, beans and peas. The area is I,235 acres; rate­ of St. Peter is an ancient building of stone and flint in able value, £1,282; the population in I9II was 243· the Early English and Perpendicular styles, consisting ot I Sexton, William Davey. chancel, nave, 80Uth porch and an embattled western i Post Office.-Scapy Crooks, sub-postmaster. Letters tower, containing a clock and 8 bells: in the church are i from Ipswich arrive at 7.30 a.m. & 3.30 p.m.; dis­ memorial. slabs toh members of thed . Theobald and · patched at 9.20 a.m. & 6.35 p.m.; no dispatch or Vere fam1hes: the c urch was restore m 1895 at a cost delivery on sundays. Claydon is the nearest money of £6oo & affordii no sittings, 55 being free. The order & Witnesham the nearest telegraph office registers date from the year I559· The living is a dis- charged vicarage, net yearly value £ 155, including 10 Public Elementary School, erected in I878 & enla.rgl*l in acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Dean and I892, for 100 children; average attendance, 68; Mrs. Chapter of Norwich, and held since I894 by the Rev. Wil· Grace Waits, mistress liam Carter Pearson B.A. of Clare College, Cambridge. i Carriers to Ipswich.-List & Moyse, daily Kenney Sidney A. Old Rectory [Brook Fanning, farmer 1N o:rman Mary Ann (Mrs. ),poultry dlr Pell.rson Rev. William Carter B. A. \Crooks Scapy, farmer & blacksmith, 1 Pudney William, farmer & assistant (vicar), Vicarage Post office overseer Reid William Douglas-, Henley hall Freeman Joseph, farmer, Walnut Tree Shipp Frank, farmer, Hill farm COMMERCIAL. farm 1 Turner GeJrge, Cross Keys P .H Boughton Arthur, wheelwright Hawes Henry, farmer , HENSTEAD is a village and parish, 5 miles south­ sittings. The register dates from the year I539· The east from Beccles station on the Great Eastern railwa •v living is a rectory, net yearly value £2o5, with residence and 7 miles south-west from Lowest.oft, in the Northern and 46 acres of glebe, in the gift of Sir Robert H. division of the county, Blything and Wangford hundred, Inglis Pal grave, and held since 1904 by the Rev. Rowland Blything petty sessional division and union, Beccles and Vectis Barker M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford, hon. Bungay county court dist-rict, rural deanery of North canon of Norwich, and proctor in convocation. The Dunwich, archdeaconry of Suffolk and diocese of Nor­ parish has a few small charities, part of which are wich. The church of St. Mary 1s a buildmg of flint in distributed in coals to the poor. Hemstead Hall, the thP PPrpPnilicnbr ~tyle, with a thatched roof. and con­ property and residence of Sir Robert H. Inglis Palgrav11 sists of chancel, long nave, south porch and an em­ F.R.S., J.P. is a large m:~nsion, with extensive and battled western tower containing one hell: the south beautifully laid out gardens. Sir Robert H. Inglis porch has a Norman doorway, and there is a 8imilal" Pal grave F .R. S. who is lord of the manor, and Capt. one on the. north side: in the nave i!l a memorial Miles Barne, of Sotterley Hall, sre the principal land­ window to Charles F. Sheriffe, d. 1874: there are 200 owners. The soil i:; mixed ; subsoil, nrious. The chief .