Post Office Directory of 1865.
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MOULTON is a pleasant village and parish, in Risbridge hundred,
Newmarket union, Fordham rural deanery, Sudbury archdeaconry, Ely diocese, West
Suffolk, 4 miles east from Newmarket, 10 west from Bury St. Edmund's, and 2
south from Kennet railway station, on the Cambridge and Bury branch of the Great
Eastern railway, situated in a small valley. This was once a market town. The
church of St Peter is a handsome stone building, in the Perpendicular style of
architecture, thoroughly restored in 1850-51, at an expense of upwards of
£2,000, defrayed principally by the present rector: it has a lofty tower
containing 5 bells, nave, chancel, side aisles, porch, organ, and register
chest, with documents dating from the reign of Queen Elizabeth. The living is a
rectory and vicarage, annual value about £700, with residence, and 170 acres of
glebe land, in the gift of the Master and Fellows of Christ's college,
Cambridge; the Rev. Edmund Mortlock, B.D., of that college, is the incumbent,
and the Rev. John Murray, M.A., is curate. There is an excellent Parochial
school, built in 1849, which is free to all the children in the parish: it was
built, and is entirely supported, by the rector. The Independents have a small
chapel. The Duke of Rutland is lord of the manor and chief landowner, but there
are a few smaller proprietors. The soil is principally of a sandy nature ;
subsoil, gravel and chalk. The crops are wheat, oats, barley, turnips, etc. The
whole of this parish is in a high state of cultivation. Moulton Paddocks, or
Fidgett, the residence of Major Fryer, J.P., is about a mile north from the
church. There are several charities: a piece of land, called the Town Estate,
for the repair of the church and bridges; Deynes charity, one fourth of which is
distributed in money to the poor; Fuel land, consisting of 45 ½ acres; Herring
money, which is distributed in bread; and Worthington's gift of £10, for which
the vicar pays 5 per cent, interest. The population in 1861 was 518, and the
area is 3,073 acres. Parish Clerk, James Goodchild.
POST OFFICE.—Robert B. Ransom, postmaster. Letters arrive from Newmarket at 8.10
a.m.; dispatched at 6 p.m. Newmarket is also the nearest money order office
Rectory Parochial School, Miss Mary Steele, mistress
Fryer Major, J.P. Fidgett
Hathaway Mr. William
Last Mr. Thomas
Mortlock Hev. Edmund, B.D. [rector]
Murray Rev. John, M.A. [curate]
Bailey James, shoe maker
Blinker John, beer retailer
Casburn Robert, shopkeeper
Gardner Thomas, farmer
Nunn Ellen (Mrs.), farmer
Osborn Charles, King's Head inn
Parsons Francis, farmer
Poulter Samuel, blacksmith
Ransom Robert B. shopkeeper & tailor
Silsby Robert, steward to Major Fryer
Staples Whiting, fanner
Turpin William P. farmer
Tweed Benjamin, carpenter
Wellsman John, maltster
Western W. Daniel, farmer
Woods John, farmer
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