Post Office Directory of 1865.
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WICKHAMBROOK is a parish and polling place for the western division
of the county, in Risbridge hundred and union, Haverhill county court district,
rural deanery of Clare, archdeaconry of Sudbury, and diocese of Ely, West
Suffolk, 6 � miles north-by-west from Clare, and 9 � southwest from Bury. The
church of All Saints is an old edifice, has nave, chancel, and side aisles, and
tower with 5 bells: there are several monuments and tablets: in the chancel is
an altar-tomb, with recumbent effigy in marble of Sir Thomas Heigham, a military
knight, distinguished in the Irish Rebellion. The living is a vicarage, having a
yearly rent-charge of �350, and 6 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Lord
Chancellor, and held by the Rev. John Dawson Hull, B.A., of Trinity College,
Dublin. Here is an Independent chapel, and a chapel for Primitive Methodists;
there is a Parochial school for boys and girls, also Sunday schools at the
church and chapels. The parish is very extensive, about 6 miles in length from
north to south, and 4 in width from east to west. There are several handsome
residences here. Badmondisfleld Hall, the seat of Nathaniel Warner Bromley,
Esq., J.P., is surrounded by a deep moat, contiguous to which is the source or
spring which supplies the parish with water. N. W. Bromley, Esq., is lord of the
manor and chief landowner; there are several smaller proprietors, of whom H. R.
Bromley, Esq., and J. P. Pryke, Esq., are the principal. The ' White Horse'
commercial inn is the principal house, where the petty sessions are held
monthly. There are several charities, and an almshouse, built by Anthony
Sparrow, in 1615. The population in 1861 was 1,452, and the area is 4,348 acres.
AsHFIELD GREEN lies to the north; Clopton Green, east; Attleton Green, west;
Coltscross Green, Gesyns, Genesis Green, Ladys Green, and Nunnery Green,
northwest.
Parish Clerk, Ammon Crick.
POST & MONEY ORDER OFFICE & POST OFFICE SAVINGS BANK.�Miss H. P. Brown,
receiver. Letters arrive from Newmarket at 9.50 a.m.; box closes at 4.45 p.m
INSURANCE AGENTS :�
Accidental Death, William Cooper
City County Fire & Life, W. G. Stutter
Liverpool & London y Globe, William Cooper
PUBLIC OFFICERS :�
Clerk to the Magistrates of Petty Sessions, John H. Jardine, solicitor, Stoke
Assistant Overseer, James Smith
Registrar of Births & Deaths for the Wickhambrook District, & Relieving Officer,
John P. Brown
CARRIERS TO :�
BURY�Josiah Marrow & George Chapman, Wednesdays
NEWMARKET�Mail cart, daily, from 'White Horse;' Mrs. Sarah Rowling, tuesdays &
Fridays
Bromley Joseph R. esq. Gesyns
Bromley Nathaniel Warner, esq. J.P. Badmondisfleld hall
Claydon Mr. John
Hockley Mr. William
Hull Rev. John Dawson, B.A. [vicar]
Kightley Rev. Thomas J.[Independent]
Peacock Mr. James
Pryke John P. esq. Aldersfleld hall
Shave Mr. Thomas
Sparrow Geo. H. esq. Wickham house
Stutter William G. esq. Brook cottage
COMMERCIAL.
| Baker Philip, farmer, Rolfe's Bocock John, butcher & farmer Brewster Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper Brewster Simeon, carpenter Bromley Joseph H. farmer & landowner, Gesyns Bromley N. Warner, barrister at law, Badmondisfleld Brown John, relieving officer Brown Joseph, farmer Buxton John, watch maker Chapman George, boot & shoe maker Chapman Joseph, farmer Cook Richard, thatcher Cooper William, White Horse commercial inn Crick Ammon, wheelwright & blacksmith Crick Ephraim, beer retailer Cross William, ironmonger Death Robert, butcher Edgley Charles, boot & shoe maker Edgley James, boot maker Everard George, farmer . Farrow Jabez, farmer Frost James, farmer, Boyden end Foreman Humphrey, carpenter & beer retailer Fuller Benjamin, farmer Fuller William, farmer Gilby George, saddler Goldsmith George, farm bailiff to the Rev. J. White Goodwin Robert, farmer Grimwood William, jun. farmer Grimwood William, sen. farmer Hinds James, carpenter & beer retailer Hinds John, carpenter Hoy William, tailor Humphreys Frederick W. miller Isaacson Charles, farmer King Charles, beer retailer King Charles, flour dealer King James, carpenter |
Marrow Josiah, shopkeeper Marrow David & Alfred, plumbers & glaziers Moore William, farmer, Rookery Pamplin John, farmer Parker Charles, Greyhound inn Parker George, bricklayer Parker William, bricklayer Pask James, farmer Pawsey Joseph, farmer Pettit George, beer retailer Pettit Henry, shoe maker & beer retailer Pledger Robert, glover Pryke George, boot & shoe maker Pryke George, shoe maker, Malting end Pryke Jeremiah, miller Pryke John H. farmer, Ashfield green Pryke John P. farmer & landowner, Aldersfield Pymar Benjamin, tailor Radley Abraham, Crown inn Rowling Joseph, farmer Rowling Sarah (Mrs.), farmer Shave Ann (Mrs.), farmer Shave Henry, carpenter & blacksmith Shave Simeon, farmer Simkin Thomas, thatcher Simkin William, thatcher Simpson George, wheelwright Simpson Robert, blacksmith Smith James, day school Smith Thomas, beer retailer Sparrow George H. farmer & landowner Staples William, district surveyor Stutter William G. surgeon Webb Thomas, farmer Wool lard Joseph, farmer & poulterer Woollard Thomas R. shopkeeper Wright Richard, grocer & draper |
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