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Bildeston Public Houses & Bildeston in 1865

Bildeston in the 1879 Kellys Directory

Bildeston is a small town and parish, 5 miles north by west from Hadleigh station, 75 from London and 10 north east from Sudbury, in the Western division, hundred and union of Cosford. the church of st Mary, about a quarter of a mile from the town, is a large and handsome structure. The register dates from 1558.
The population in 1871 was 808.

Post, Money Order & Telegraph Office & Savings Bank - john Crickmore, Receiver.
Norwich Union Fire & Life, W Squirrell jun.
There is a National school, able to accommodate 130 children; William Henry Mould, master; Miss Elizabeth Eldred, mistress; Miss Emily Gardner, infants mistress.
Also a small school attached to the Baptist Chapel
Carriers to Bury - James Cresswell; Hadleigh - James Cresswell; Ipswich - G C Roper & Jas Cresswell

Beck Rev james M.A. Rectory
Cleghorn Thomas
Growse John Lawrence
Growse Miss
Leith Rev William Forbes M.A. [vicar of Wattisham]
Moss Frederick
Squirrell William
Walter Herbert Simcoe, Rectory
White Mrs

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