C ol Framlingham Town Centre Map l eg Based on a map drawn by Brian S. Finn e N R College d d R The w B 1 Ne 1 Hitchams Mere 16 Almshouses START 27 26 Elms Car Framlingham College Primary Park School The 16a v Castle Inn Bridge St 16 v 25 Well Close 15 Jeaffresons Well Square PO 24 Library 23 P Castle 3 Riverside 2 21 Albert 22 nn 20 Co-op Newsagent I 14 1 Place 9 Meadow 10 C B1 a P 8 St stle Market Hill 1 Road Queens Market Head St Mills Churc13h gham Alley Hill n Almshouses 7 The Badi Mews 1112 19 17 4 Double St Bro ok Fore Crown & 20 Lane P St Anchor Lane 18 Rd Sa 5 6 xm undh Rd Fore St d a m el Station Petrol Rd rfi Garage B119 Fai Cemetery The Framlingham Town Trail - page 1 FRAMLINGHAM TOWN TRAIL - page 2 Start from the Elms Car Park and prospered and he married well, thus Thomas died in 1703 a rich 9 THE TOWN SIGN head for the footpath towards the man, with no heirs. His only daughter had died in infancy. Six Erected in 1991 with funds raised by town centre shown right. almshouses were built on his instructions in his will. His friend the Framlingham WI. The design Look for William Mayhew added two more. came from an amalgamation of ideas these markers 5 TOMB HOUSE from local people who entered a in the competition. It was made by a local This property was previously known pavement. blacksmith, Mr Hector Moore, from as Garden House, which was final drawings by his wife Mary, who also painted it. inherited by Thomas Mills. On his At the road cross straight over into Riverside and walk alongside death, being a devout Baptist, he was 10 THE GUILDHALL the River Ore which rises at Saxtead and joins the River Alde at buried in the garden by his own wish, The Queen Anne style front, conceals Marlesford. and this tomb built over his grave, and that of William Mayhew. 16th and 17th century timber work. You will now be in Albert Place where you will find:- Opposite is:- It was built on the site of a building known to exist in 1363. Note the 1 THE PUMP - one of the 6 THE RAILWAY INN town’s main water sources and mathematical tiles which are hung on The railway came to the town in unusually has 2 spouts. The top one battens to give the impression of 1859. The branch line connected for domestic use and the lower to fill brickwork, behind which is a timber-framed building. Framlingham to the wider world via the water carts which supplied Campsea Ashe. It ceased carrying 11 BARCLAYS BANK outlying houses. The carts would also passengers in 1952 and freight in Dating from 1855 this was the first sprinkle water on the roads in the summer to lay the dust, before 1964 when it finally closed. purpose-built bank in the town. It the roads were surfaced in 1912. Turn round and retrace your steps to Fore Street. Cross the road also has a false facade, an imposing 2 THE UNITED FREE CHURCH by the Catholic Church and walk up Queens Head Alley addition dating from 1897 when Originally built as a flour mill which Barclays acquired it after a rather failed. Converted and extended in 7 QUEENS HEAD ALLEY chequered banking history 1867 as the People’s Hall and then The house on your left was once an 12 THE CROWN HOTEL bought by the Methodists. In 1988 inn built in the late 1400’s - The Dating from 1553, this coaching inn it became the United Free Church, Blue Boar. It is thought the Queen served travellers between Ipswich the Hall being on the ground floor and the church above. referred to when the name was and Norwich. Until 1952 there was 3 THE ANCIENT HOUSE changed was Queen Mary, who came an open carriageway right through the building allowing coaches to pass A typical Suffolk timber framed to Framlingham in 1553 before from Fairfield Road onto the Market house dating from the 17th century. being crowned. At the rear of the Inn bear leaders used to sleep in It has fine examples of pargetting the doss- house, while the bears slept outside. In the 19th Hill. The frontage is an 18th century addition to the original [ornamental plasterwork] century, vagrants sheltered here for a 1d a night. The archway is Tudor Inn. To the left a shop window and door thought to be the original toll entrance into the town. Proceed up Church Street are of Victorian origin. Turn left and onto Market Hill 13 REGENCY HOUSE Cross Albert Road into Station Road and on your right is:- 8 MARKET HILL Known earlier as Tudor House or 4 MILLS ALMSHOUSES Markets have been held here since Church House, as between the 15th & 18th centuries it was used for the Thomas Mills came from 1285. Clergy of St Michael’s Church. Grundisburgh and learnt the trade of The triangular Hill is surrounded by buildings of many ages, styles and Another false front! The facade looks wheelwright. His employer, Edward like stone, but is in fact made of wood, sizes and the facades often conceal Smith, left his house and business to with a balustrade and balcony which were constructed in London much older interiors. him on his death. The business and added in 1813. FRAMLINGHAM TOWN TRAIL - page 3 14 THE DUCKING POND 18 JEAFFRESON’S WELL Turn right and walk through the bollards down the steps In the 17th century a large number A well was sunk here in 1896, in to the bottom of Market Hill & turn right into Bridge Street. of witch trials took place here. This memory of William Jeaffreson 23 THE COURTHOUSE pond is part of the castle moat, but F.R.C.S., who had been a doctor Built in 1872 when the town was much of this was filled in when in the town, and of his wife the legal centre for 33 parishes. gardens were created for the Castle Caroline. Judge’s Courts were held until Street dwellings. The pond was The well and the pump has been disused since the introduction much larger than it is now, containing fish and the water being of mains water. and is now in the care of the Town Council. 1924 and Magistrates Courts used for domestic purposes. In the 1960’s much of it was filled in Turn back into Castle Street & replace your steps until 1978. It is now the Library and made more formal. and turn left into Double Street On the wall can be seen the coat of arms for Framlingham and its twinned town, Coucy-le-Chateau, in addition to a plaque to 15 THE BOWLING GREEN 19 VICTORIAN PILLAR BOX the Town Cat. Hidden away down a small path to the This is one of two pillar boxes in left of the Castle Drive, this is one of the town dating from 1856/7, thus 24 UNITARIAN MEETING HOUSE the oldest greens in the country. The making them among the earliest boxes in mainland Britain. They Built in 1717, the Old Meeting green lies over an ancient burial ground House was the first for dissenters and used to be on the ‘huh’ requiring were made by Hendy & Son of Derby. in the town. In 1812 the East special Fram Woods until the green was made perfectly level. Anglian Unitarian Society was 20 DOUBLE STREET 16 THE CASTLE formed, and this recently restored This magnificent curtain-walled castle, This interesting street was building is still used for worship. now in the care of English Heritage, originally called Bow Street, and 25 THE CHECK HOUSE you can see why from the map. It dates from the 12th century, which Tucked down a lane on your right was given its present name when was preceded by a wooden structure a is one of the smallest houses in buildings were erected on both century earlier. In 1553 Mary Tudor the area. It stands at what was stayed here with an enormous retinue sides of the road. You will note large shop windows in many of once the entrance to Mauldens when she learnt that she had been proclaimed Queen. Look to the houses as this was once the town’s main shopping street. Mill, a large steam-powered mill. your left from the bridge over the moat, and you will see Cross over Church Street onto the Church path Framlingham College the other side of the mere. Turn right into New Road 16a LANMAN MUSEUM 21 ST MICHAEL’S CHURCH 26 HITCHAM’S ALMSHOUSES If you have time to visit the castle, you will find within its Do call in at the church as it contains much of interest, These were built in 1654 for 12 walls the Lanman Museum, containing many artefacts and poor people, with money left by Sir items of interest relating to the town’s history. including a world famous Tamar organ; a medieval wall painting; a Robert Hitcham. The Tudor bricks Leave the castle and turn left along Castle Street fine hammer beam roof; and the were salvaged from the demolition of the interior of the Castle. At the 17 THE READERY magnificent tombs of the Howard family. Note also the town far end, the school erected in 1789 is now the Masonic Hall. clock on the tower, presented by Sir Henry Thompson in A street containing houses of some Continue along New Rd for a magnificent view of the Castle or memory of his father in 1872.