Flixton (Bungay), Suffolk
Historical Description
Flixton, a parish in Suffolk, adjacent to the river Waveney, and the boundary with Norfolk, 3 miles SW of Bungay station on the G,E.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Bungay. Acreage, 1774; population, 168. Flixton Hall, the seat of the Adair family, is a fine mansionof red brick, originally built in the reign of Henry VIII., but which has undergone extensive alterations; contains valuable pictures by the Dutch and Italian masters, and .stands in a park of 600 acres. An Augustinian nunnery was founded in the parish in 1258 by Margery de Creek, and given at the dissolution to the Tasburghs. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £106 with residence. Patron, Sir H. E. Adair, Bart. The church, a building of flint and stone in the Norman and Early English styles, was rebuilt in 1861.
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Land and Property
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