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Halesworth in Suffolk County England History and GeographyHALESWORTH, a market town and parish in the hundred of BLYTHING, county of SUFFOLK, 30½ miles (N.E. by N.) from Ipswich, and 101 (N.E.) from London, containing 2166 inhabitants. The town, which is situated in a valley on the banks of the river Blyth, is ancient and indifferently built, nearly in the form of the letter S, but contains a few good houses; the streets are spacious and well lighted with oil, but not paved, and the inhabitants plentifully supplied with water. There is a small theatre, which is open once in two years. The river is navigable hence to Southwold, for small craft of about twenty-five tons, which are usually laden with malt and grain. There are some very large malt-houses, the trade in malting being extensive. The market is on Tuesday, for corn and provisions; and there is a fair on the 29th of October, chiefly for Scotch cattle. The magistrates of the hundred hold quarterly meetings here; and courts leet and baron for the manor are held occasionally. The living is a discharged rectory with the vicarage of Chediston, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £20, and in the patronage of J. Ward, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a fine edifice of flint, and has lately received an addition of two hundred and twenty-five free sittings, towards defraying the expense of which the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels granted £100: the tower, though low, is handsome, and is ornamented with a very splendid clock recently put up. There are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, and Unitarians. A National school, in which two hundred children are educated, is endowed, according to the return of the Commissioners for inquiring into charities, with £30 per annum, the rent of a pew in the church, bequeathed by John Hutcher in 1816. In a school adjoining the church-yard, six poor children are instructed, by means of a benefaction of £60 left by Thomas Neale; and there is a school for twenty boys and twenty girls, endowed with a rent-charge of £17. 6. 8. bequeathed by Richard Porter, Esq. There are eight almshouses belonging to the parish, in which are fourteen poor widows, who have a small weekly allowance; and a few other benefactions have been made for different purposes. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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