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Needham Market, Suffolk

Historical Description

Needham Market, a town and an ecclesiastical parish in Barking civil parish, Suffolk. The town stands on the river Gipping and on the G.E.B., 8½ miles NNW of Ipswich; was formerly a seat of the woollen manufacture and of considerably more importance than now; had a weekly market, from which it took the latter part of its name, and a fair on 28 Oct., both of which have been discontinued; is well built, and contains several handsome houses; is a seat of petty sessions and a polling place; and has a head post office, a railway station, a bank, a town-hall erected in 1866, containing a large room used for public meetings, a court with magistrates' retiring rooms and a police station with cells for prisoners, two good hotels, a Congregational chapel, a Friends' meeting-house, a subscription reading-room, an endowed grammar school founded by Sir Francis Theobald in 1632 and now, open to scholars from Needham, Barking, and Darmsden, almshouses for eight persons, a cottage home erected in 1858 for four inmates, and other charities. The town's area comprises nearly 1000 acres. The ecclesiastical parish is con-terminate with the town, and has a population of 1313. The manor belongs to the Earl of Ashbumham. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £74. The church is a large and ancient building of stone and flint in the Perpendicular style; it has a finely carved hammer beam roof and a good stained E window.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountySuffolk 
Civil parishBarking 
HundredBosmere and Claydon 
Poor Law unionBosmere and Claydon 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Directories & Gazetteers

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Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.


Maps

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Newspapers and Periodicals

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DistrictMid Suffolk
CountySuffolk
RegionEastern
CountryEngland
Postal districtIP6
Post TownIpswich

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