Post Office Directory of 1865.
ASPALL is a village and parish, in Hartismere hundred, union and
rural deanery, county court district of Eye, Suffolk archdeaconry, diocese of
Norwich, West Suffolk, 7 miles north-east from Haughley junction, 15 north from
Ipswich, one mile north-west from Debenham, and 5 miles south of Eye. It has a
picturesque church, capable of holding about 140 persons, erected in the
fifteenth century. The register commences from 1558. The living is a perpetual
curacy, annual value £220, with residence, and 25 acres of glebe, in the gift of
Mrs. Chevallier, and held by the Rev. Charles Henry Chevallier, M.A., of Trinity
College, Oxford, in whose family, it has been for many years. There is a
National school near the church. Aspall Hall, the residence of Mrs. Chevallier,
widow of Doctor Chevallier, a large mansion, finely embowered in wood, is still
used as a respectable private lunatic asylum, of which Thomas Radford, Esq.,
P.E.C.8.L., is surgeon. The principal landed proprietors are John Garners
Freeman, Esq., of Aspall House, and the Chevallier family. The population in
1801 was 150; area, 8.14 acres; gross estimated rental £1.436, and rateable
value £1,317.
Parish Clerk, Joseph Bolton.
Letters through Stonham, via Debenham, which is also the nearest post & money
order office & post office savings bank
National School, Mrs. Wm. Freeman, mistress'
Chevallier Rev. Charles Henry, M.A., J.P. [incumbent], The Parsonage
Cobbold Mrs
Freeman John Garneys, esq. Aspall ho
Radford Thomas, esq. F.R.C.S.L
Bloomfield Samuel, farmer
Capon John, farmer & assistant overseer, Hill house
Chevallier Mrs. Aspall hall, private lunatic asylum
Freeman John Garneys, yeoman, Aspall house
Freeman Maria (Mrs.), farmer
Radford Thomas, F.R.c.s.L. surgeon
TaJman Alfred, farmer, Red house