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Needham-Market in Suffolk County England History and GeographyNEEDHAM-MARKET, a chapelry (formerly a market town) in the parish of BARKING, hundred of BOSMERE, and CLAYDON, county of SUFFOLK, 8½ miles (N.W. by N.) from Ipswich, and 74 (N.E.) from London, containing 1300 inhabitants. The town is situated on low ground near the river Stour, and on the high road to Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's: it is tolerably well built, and the houses are neat, and many of them handsome: the inhabitants are supplied with water from springs: the surrounding country is pleasant, and abounds in agreeable walks. Near the town is a lake, between thirty and forty acres in extent, called Bosmere, which gives name to the hundred. The trade formerly consisted in wool-combing, and weaving calimancoes, which has long since ceased; the manufacture of paper and glue is of considerable extent. The Stow-Market and Ipswich navigation passes along the north-east boundary of the parish, and is crossed by a bridge leading from the town; and the Stour is navigable to Ipswich, being used chiefly for the conveyance of corn and coal. The market, formerly held on Wednesday, was removed to Stow-Market, in consequence of the plague having raged here for three years: a fair for toys is held on the 28th of October. Constables are appointed at the court leet and baron of the lord of the manor, held annually, and oftener as occasion may require. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich, endowed with £600 royal bounty, and £800 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Rector of Barking: the inhabitants, from time immemorial, have had the right of electing a lecturer. The chapel, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is an ancient edifice, with a belfry of wood. There are places of worship for the Society of Friends and Independents. The free grammar school was founded pursuant to the will of Francis Theobald, Esq., dated January 10th, 1632, and endowed by him with estates subsequently conveyed to trustees, and now producing a rental of £55 per annum: the master's salary is £50, with a dwelling-house; twenty-one poor children from Needham-Market, Barking, and Darmsden, are instructed. An almshouse, comprising two tenements, was founded, by some person unknown, for the benefit of poor widows and widowers, and endowed with land now producing about £20 per annum: eight poor women reside in it. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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