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Ringshall

RINGSHALL, a parish, in the union and hundred of Bosmere and Claydon, E. division of Suffolk, 5 miles (W. S. W.) from Needham-Market; containing 356 inhabitants, and comprising 2116a. 2r. 6p. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £11. 18. 1½., and in the gift of Pembroke College, Oxford: the tithes have been commuted for £562. 10., including those on the glebe, which contains about 93 acres. The church is partly in the early and partly in the decorated English style, with a square tower, the upper part of which was struck by lightning about 30 years since. A wall and a window, now forming part of a farmhouse, are the remains of a chapel founded here in 1174; and near the farmhouse is the site of a mansion which was occasionally the residence of Sir Thomas Gresham, while making preparations for the erection of the Royal Exchange, London. The frame-work for that structure was made here and in the adjoining parish of Battisford, from timber grown upon his estate in each place, and several of the saw-pits where the wood was cut are still to be seen. Fossils of the Saurian species of animals have been found on the glebe.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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