East Bergholt, Suffolk 1855 Whites Directory

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East Bergholt Whites 1855 Directory.

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EAST BERGHOLT, a large and well built village, with several handsome mansions and well stocked shops, is pleasantly situated near the north bank of the river Stour, six miles S.E. of Hadleigh, 9£ miles S.W. of Ipswich, and nearly three miles W.N.W. of Manningtree Station, where the Stour begins to expand into a broad estuary. It formerly had a market and a considerable manufacture of flannel, baize, &c., but they went to decay more than a century ago. It has a fair for toys, &c., on the last Wednesday in July. Its parish increased in population from 970 souls in 1801, to 1467 in 1851; and contains 3063A. 2R. 34P. of land. Sir Rd. Hughes, Bart., Peter Godfrey, Esq., C. D. Halford, Esq., Mrs. Oakes, Rev. J. Rowley, W. H. Travis, and several smaller owners have estates in the parish. P. Godfrey, Esq., is lord of the four manors called Old Hall, Illarys, Spencer’s, and St. John’s, in the first of which the custom of Borough English prevails. These manors were formerly held by the Hankeys. St. John’s was given by Henry II to the Templar Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, but was granted to the Earl of Oxford in the 36th of Henry VIII. In 1562, here were three water mills, but only one of them is now standing. The late Sir Richard Hughes, of East Bergholt, was created a baronet in 1773. His successor owns East Bergholt Lodge. In 1846, C. D. Halford, Esq., purchased the West Lodge estate. Besides these there are several other pleasant seats in the parish, but that called Highlands, which belongs to the Oakes family, is now unoccupied, as is also the Old Hall. The Church (St. Mary) is a neat structure, in the decorated style, but its tower is only finished to the height of fourteen feet; the sums given towards rebuilding it, about the year 1522, being insufficient for its completion. The five bells hang in a sort of cage in the churchyard. The rectory, with that of Brantham annexed to it, is valued in K.B. at £25. 10s., and now at £1117, and is in the patronage of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and incumbency of the Rev. J. Rowley, M.A., who has about 45A. of glebe in the two parishes, and two yearly rent charges, viz., £820 from East Bergholt, and £500 from Brantham, awarded in 1837, in lieu of tithes. The Rectory House is here, and is a fine old mansion, with tasteful grounds, on a bold eminence. In the parish is an Independent Chapel, built in the 17th century; and also a small Primitive Methodist Chapel, erected in 1838.
East Bergholt Town Land &c., were purchased in 1695, with part of a fund which has arisen from benefactions in and before the reign of Elizabeth, for providing victuals to be sold at a cheap rate, and for other charitable purposes. They were conveyed to new trustees in 1816, and comprise six cottages at Burnt Oaks, let for £17 a year; a close of 5A. 2R. 1P., let for £9 a year; and 8A. 3R. of land called Cow Pasture, let for £30 a year. The trustees have also £80 three per cent annuities. The yearly income (about £58) is laid out in linen, which is distributed among the poor parishioners on New Year’s Day. In 1720, Edward Clarke left three cottages for the residence of three poor widows, and endowed them with a rent charge of £12 a year out of his farm in Tattingstone. In 1725, Joseph Chaplain left an estate, now consisting of a cottage, barn, and 16A. of land, to Henry Hankey, Esq., and his heirs, in trust, to apply the rents thereof in providing coats and shoes for five poor men; and gowns, petticoats, and shoes for five poor women – such as receive no alms. This charity estate is let for £17 a year, and the number of objects has been increased beyond that specified by the donor. In 1758, Elizabeth Mitchell, in furtherance of the desire of her late brother, conveyed to trustees 4A. 1R. 19P. of land, called Annett’s, upon trust, to pay the rent thereof yearly to the churchwardens, that they might lay it out and distribute it in bread. This land, with an allotment of 2A. awarded at the enclosure, is let for £10 a year, which is distributed in bread on Easter, Whit, and Advent Sundays, Christmas day, and the first Sunday in Lent. The poor of East Bergholt have also £2. 8s. 2d. yearly from White’s Charity, as noticed with Holton. In 1589, Edward Lamb conveyed to trustees a Schoolhouse and a rood of land in East Bergholt, for a schoolmaster, to be appointed by the lord of the manor of Illarys, the rector, churchwardens, and four of the chief parishioners. In 1589, Lettice Dykes, to provide for the education of poor children of this parish, and four of Stratford and Langham, conveyed to trustees various lands of tenements, some of which were sold or exchanged. The property now belonging to this trust consists of a house, barn, and about 53A. of land at Langham and Denham, let for £66 per annum, and £120. 4s.9d. three per cent, consols, supposed to have been derived from the sale of a house, the site of which is included in the grounds of the Old Hall. Out of the income of the school property, the trustees pay £40 a year to the schoolmaster for teaching 40 boys of East Bergholt as free scholars in reading, writing, and arithmetic; £10 towards the support of a girls’ school; £2 each to Stratford and Langham parishes, for schooling four poor boys; and after providing for repairs, they apply the surplus to the support of a Sunday school, and a School of Industry, for poor girls of this parish. They rebuilt the Free School in 1831, at the cost of £320. East Bergholt Heath was enclosed in 1815. On Buck’s Elm Farm is a large Elm Tree, which measures 28£ feet in circumference, five feet from the ground.

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