Ilketshall+St+Margaret

Whites ILKETSHALL ST.MARGARET, 4 miles S. by E. of Bungay, is a straggling village and parish, containing 315 souls, and 2090.2R.16P. of land. Wm. Adair, Esq., is lord of the manor, but a great part of the soil belongs to Lady. Beresford, Mr. J. G. Chaston, and several smaller owners. The Church is a small structure, with a tower and three bells, and the living is a discharged vicarage, valued in K.B. at £5. 13s. 9d., and in 1835 at £131, Mrs. Patteson is patroness and impropriator, and the Rev. Patrick Bassinghall Beath incumbent, The glebe is 15 acres. The tithes have been commuted for yearly, moduses of £528 to the impropriator; £121 to the vicar; and £15 to the rector of Ilketshall St. John. The Town Estate, consisting of two tenements and 24A of land, let for £28 a year, has been invested from an early period for the reparation of the church and other public uses. The poor have about £5 yearly, left by Henry Smith, in 1626, out of an estate at Tolleshunt-Darcv, in Essex. A limited number of the tenants of the four parishes of Illketshall, have the privilege of pasturing a certain number of cattle on Stow Fen. Baldry John, blacksmith Clutton Oliver, shopkeeper Collings Hy. horse breaker and vict. Greyhound Harvey Mrs Eliz. and Mrs Ann Martin Jph. shoemaker and shopr. Martin Thomas, shopkeeper Masterson Wm. tailor. FARMERS. Adams James Andrews James Candler Geo. jun. Cotton Oliver Dodd Joseph Edwards James Foyster Robert Harvey James Holden Samuel Holden Joseph King Henry Ling Rachel Martin Benjamin Meddle John Neal Thomas Owles John Pass John Rope Mark Spurgeon John Wright John Kellys ILKETSHALL ST. MARGARET is a scattered village and parish, 3 miles south from Bungay, in the Lowestoft division of the county, Bungay petty sessional division, Wangford hundred and union, Beccles and Bungay county court district, rural deanery of South Elmham, archdeaconry of Suffolk and diocese of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich. The church of St. Margaret is a small but ancient building of flint and rubble in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a round embattled western tower, of presumed Saxon date, containing 3 bells: there are 171 sittings, 89 being free. The register dates from the year 1538. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £150, with residence, in the gift of Cambridge University, and held since 1925 by the Rev. John Frederick Hughes M.A. of Hertford College, Oxford, who is also rector of Spexhall. The church lands of 26 acres, together with two tenements, are let for about £23 yearly, which sum, after deducting tithe and taxes etc. is applied to the repairs of the church and other purposes; the poor have a yearly rent-charge of £2 left by H. Smith in 1626, out of an estate in Essex. The Duke of Norfolk is lord of the manor, and the land is mostly owned by the farmers. The soil is heavy, with clay subsoil. The chief crops are wheat, barley, turnips and pasture. The area is 2,097 acres; the population in 1921 was 216. Parish Clerk, Charles Peck. Post & T. Office. Letters through Bungay, which is the nearest M.O. office. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Garwood Miss, The Vicarage Harvey John James, The Laurels COMMERCIAL Marked thus * farm 150 acres or over Boast Ephraim, farmer Blowers Geo. Lewis, shopkeeper. Post office Cannell Carlos Jn. Gilbt. Farmer, Brook House farm Cannell Henry, farmer, Collyer Geo. farmer, Rookery farm Davison Geo. farmer, Corner farm English Ernest, Greyhound P.H. Goodrich -, farmer, Highfield farm Hadingham William Edward sen. farmer, Nest farm Martin Maria (Miss), shopkeeper Myhill William, farmer, Old Hall Roberts Jas. Nelson, farmer, Roper’s farm Sadd Ernest, farmer, New Hall & Church farms. Skinner Charles Samuel, farmer, Elms farm & Shadow barn Thompson Ernest, farmer, cable farm Warne John, farmer, School farm Wright Ella (Mrs), farmer, White House Dutt Ilketshall St Margaret (3 m. S. of Bungay).The church has a round tower. The rest is of early date, but Perp. windows have been inserted. Note the wall paintings.

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