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Walsham-Le-Willows (St. Mary)

WALSHAM-LE-WILLOWS (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Stow, hundred of Blackbourn, W. division of Suffolk, 4½ miles (E. by N.) from Ixworth; containing 1265 inhabitants. The village is situated in a picturesque valley, and in the immediate vicinity are several handsome villas with grounds tastefully laid out. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £93; patron and impropriator, S. Golding, Esq. The church is a spacious structure in the decorated English style, with a square embattled tower; the nave is lighted by clerestory windows, and the roof is richly groined. Here are places of worship for Baptists, Independents, and Wesleyans; and a national school. At the inclosure, 100 acres of land were awarded to the poor, of which about 80 are let in small lots to them, with 30 more by Messrs. Wilkinson and Golding; there are also 50 acres for the repair of the church, and for distributing fuel and clothing among the poor. Near the church is an old mansion, formerly a priory subordinate to Ixworth Abbey, and in which, while under repair, several relics of antiquity have been found.

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

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