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Great Blakenham Public Houses

The Bosmere & Claydon Hundred
Great Blakenham in the 1879 Kellys Directory

Great Blakenham is a village and parish near the navigable Gipping, half a mile from Claydon station, 73� miles from London and 5 north west from Ipswich.
In the eastern division, Bosmere hundred, Bosmere and Claydon union. The church of St Mary is in the early English style, restored in 1878. The register dates from 1549.
The population in 1871 was 236.
Parish clerk, John Southgate
Carrier to Ipswich - Turner, also Rosher & Young.

Rogers Rev James Charles Warrington B.A. [rector]
Mason Mrs, The Hall
Cresswell Charles Henry, shopkeeper
Cresswell Philip, blackmsith
Cresswell Richardson, dealer
Garnham James (Mrs), frmer
Keeble John, farmer
Mayhew Robert, shopkeeper
Orman William George, Bell Inn
Peacock Francis John, farmer
Raynham Wm Frederick, miller & maltster
Welham Richard, Chequers