Post Office Directory of 1865.
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IXWORTH THORPE (or THORPE-BY-IXWORTH) is a small village and parish,
in Blackbourn hundred and rural deanery, Thingoe union, Bury St. Edmund's county
court district, Sudbury archdeaconry, and diocese of Ely, West Suffolk, 5 miles
north-west from Thurston station, a mile and a half north-west from Ixwortb, and
8 ½ miles from Bury St. Edmund's. The church of All Saints is a stone building,
with steeple partly of wood, with 1 bell. The living is a donative, value £20,
in the gift of Sir Frederick Lamb, Bart., who is impropriator and lord of the
manor, and held by the Rev. George Ceesar Hawkins, B.A., Of Oriel College,
Oxford, who resides at Honington. The population in 1861 was 139, and the area
is 770 acres.
Parish Clerk, William Middleditch. Letters from Ixworth, which is also the
nearest money order office
Sheldrake Edward, esq
Crosby Samuel, shopkeeper
Debenham John Martin, farmer
Sheldrake Edward, farmer & landowner