History of Suffolk - Chilton 1865

Post Office Directory of 1865.

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Chilton is a parish and village, in Sudbury union and county court district, Babergh hundred, Sudbury rural deanery and archdeaconry, and diocese of Ely, West Suffolk, a mile and a half north-east from Sudbury station. The register dates from 1623. The living is a discharged rectory; the tithes were commuted in 1839 for £208 per annum, with 25 acres of glebe, in the gift of W C Parmenter esq. , and held by the Rev William Nesfield Andrews, M.A, of Jesus College, Cambridge. Here is a barrow. The population in 1861 was 149, and the area is 979 acres.
Parish Clerk, Daniel Upson
Letters through Sudbury, which is also the nearest money order office.
Andrews Rev William Nesfield, M.A. [rector]
Bridgman John, esq
Foster Mr George, Chilton Lodge
Goldsmith Mrs, The Mount
Lockwood Miss, Chilton villa

Commercial
Cant William, carpenter
Howard James Hardy, farmer
Meeking Naamah (Mrs), farmer
Salter Edward, brick merchant, & steam saw mills at Sudbury
Thompson William, Maldon Grey
Westoby, farmer
Westoby John jun, farmer


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