Post Office Directory of 1865.
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HARGRAVE is a scattered village and parish, in Thingoe hundred and
union, Bury St. Edmund's county court district, Clare rural deanery, Sudbury
archdeaconry, diocese of Elv, West Suffolk, 6 ½ miles south-west from Bury St.
Edmunds station. The church has a tower and 3 bells, a nave and chancel, and
porch. The register dates from the middle of the sixteenth century. The living
is a rectory, valued in 1835 at £283, with 27 acres of glebe land, in the gift
of the Rev. John White, and held by the Rev. John White Westliorpe. The Marquis
of Bristol is lord of the manor, which was held by Bury Abbey, afterwards by the
Kitsons and Gages. The poor have £20 a year from Dayne's Charity, with several
other small donations. The Marquis of Bristol and Sir Robert Affleck, Bart., are
the chief landowners, but there are a few smaller proprietors. The soil is clay
and loam; subsoil, clay, gravel, and chalk. The crops are wheat, barley, and
beans. Here is a small parochial school. The population in 1861 was 520, and the
area is 1,108 acres.
FROGSEND and Birdsend are to the east. Southwell Park, formerly extra-parochial,
is about half a mile west.
Parish Clerk, John Banks. Letters through Bury St. Edmund's by foot post.
Wickhamhrook is the nearest money order office. Parochial School, Miss Emma
Dale, mistress
COMMERCIAL.
Bell Sampson, farmer, The Hall
Birch Jeremiah, farmer
Decks John, farmer
Fenton John, farmer
Gooch John, carpenter & shopkeeper
Hagreen John, blacksmith
Hammond William, bootmaker
Herbert Nunn, farmer
Mortlock John, bootmaker
Murkin James, shopkeeper
Nunn (Misses), milliners
Palmer Edward, Bull inn, & tailor
Pask Joseph, gardener
Phillips Charles, farmer
Plummer Henry, poulterer
Ruse Stephen, miller
Seeley Timothy, farmer
Siinkin James, farmer
Sparrow George, farmer
Tricker Robert, farmer
Wallis Robert, beer retailer
Wright Robert, Cock's Head, & dealer in bran & pollard