Post Office Directory of 1865.
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KETTLEBASTON is a village and small parish, in Cosford hundred and
union, Hadleigh county court district, rural deanery and archdeaconry of
Sudbury, and diocese of Ely, West Suffolk, 7 miles north-north-west from
Hadleigh station, and 2 north-west from Bildestone. The church of St. Mary is a
plain structure, in good repair, with a tower and 3 bells, and has one old
brass, and an old monument to Lady Jenny. The register commences in 1578. The
living is a rectory, value £405, in the gift of the Rev. Robert Fiske, and held
by the Rev. John Robert Fiske, M.A. Mrs. Beeehcroft is lady of the manor. The
annual value of the charities is £5. There is in the parish a neat National
school, built in 1838. The population in 1861 was 198, and the number of acres
is 1,063.
Parish Clerk, John Head.
Letters through Blldestone, which Is also the order office
Fiske Rev. John Robert, M.A. [rector]
COMMERCIAL.
Barton John, farmer
Bendle William, farmer
Makin Robert, farmer
Proctor Joseph, farmer & shopkeeper
Ward Thomas, farmer Wright John, farmer