Post Office Directory of 1865.
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SIBTON is a parish, in Blything hundred and union, Halesworth county
court district, rural deanery of Dunwich, archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese
of Norwich, East Suffolk, 5 miles north-west from Saxmundham, 7 south from
Halesworth, and a mile and a half west from Yoxford. The church of St. Peter is
an old building in the Gothic style. The living is a discharged vicarage, value
£200, in the gift of J. W. Brooke, Esq., and held by the Rev. Sterling Moseley
Westhorp, M.A.; the Rev. O. Wilkinson, assistant curate. Sibton Park, the seat
of J. W.Brooke, Esq., D.L., is an elegant mansion on a pleasing elevation: a
portion of the estate is laid out in pleasure grounds, intersected by a lake,
with wooded park and meadows. The abbey ruins are the remains of a Cistercian
abbey, formerly a splendid edifice, founded about the year 1150, and dedicated
to the Blessed Virgin; at the Dissolution its revenues were valued at £250 15s.
7d. per annum. Here is a Free school, founded and endowed by Dorothea Scrivener,
A.D. 1719. The population in 1861 was 489, and the area is 2,861 acres.
Parish Clerk, George Cooper.
Letters through Yoxford, which is the nearest money order office
Brooks John Wm. esq. D.L. Sibton park
Green Mrs
Spinks Mrs. Abbey house
Westhorp Rev. Sterling Moseley, M.A
Bacon William, shopkeeper
Bowler John, former
Brooks Thomas, farmer, South grange
Cross James, miller
Garwood George, farmer
Hayward John, blacksmith
Holmes James, farmer
List John, White Horse inn
Nottidge Ralph Clark, farmer, North grange
Payne George, farmer
Pinkney David, farmer
Pipe Robert, farmer
Row Francis, farmer
Sampson William, farmer
Short John, farmer
Sparkes John, farmer
Sparkes John, jun. gig builder
Thurlow Samuel, farmer
White Charles, farmer, Abbey farm
White William, carpenter
Wincup Elizabeth (Mrs.), blacksmith
Winter Henry, farmer
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