Post Office Directory of 1865.
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MILDEN is a small village and parish, in the hundred Babergb, union
of Cosford, county court district of Hadleigh, rural deanery and archdeaconry of
Sudbury, and diocese of Ely, West Suffolk, 4 miles east from Lavenham, 7 from
Sudbury, and also the same distance north-west from Hadleigh station. The church
of St. Peter is of Norman structure; it has a square tower, and has been
repaired, and an organ erected: in the chancel is an ancient monument to the
memory of James Allington, who died in 1626. The register dates from 1558. The
living is a rectory, value £340 in the gift of John Gurdon esq,. and held by the
Rev. Nathaniel William Hallward, M.A., of Worcester College, Oxford. The annual
value of the charities is about £10. The late Rev. W. Burkitt left a valuable
library to the incumbents of this place. The population in 1861 was 159, and the
extent of the parish is 1,339 acres.
Parish Clerk, William Tiffen.
Letters received from Monks Eleigh. Bildestone is the nearest money order office
Hallward Rev.Nathaniel William, M.A., J.P. [rector]
Bigg William, Plough, & flour dealer
Biggs Elward, farmer
Everett John, farmer
Gage James, farmer
Harwood Thos. farmer, Belstead hall
Hawkins Robert, farmer
Worters Thomas, farmer
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