Stradbrook, or Stradbroke (All Saints)

STRADBROOK, or Stradbroke (All Saints), a parish, in the union and hundred of Hoxne, E. division of Suffolk, 5¾ miles (E.) from Eye; containing 1637 inhabitants. The parish is situated on the road from Woodbridge to Norwich. A corn-market takes place every Tuesday; and petty-sessions are held monthly. The living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the king's books at £9.18. 6½.; patron, the Bishop of Ely; total net income, £712: the vicar holds the great tithes from the bishop at the rent of £8 per annum, under a grant made in 1661 as an augmentation. There is a handsome glebe-house, erected by the late Rev. W. White, with a glebe of six acres. The church is a fine structure, chiefly in the decorated English style, with a lofty embattled tower; the chancel has been lately beautified at a great expense. Here is a place of worship for Baptists. William Grenling, in 1599, bequeathed some land to be applied, among other purposes, in support of a school; and Mary Warner, in 1746, left an annuity of £15 for teaching children. Michael Wentworth, in 1587, gave the town-house for the use of the poor; and there is a sum of £70 per annum, derived from 60 acres of land, for the repairs of the church, and for general purposes. The union workhouse is situated here. Robert Grostete, Bishop of Lincoln, who died in 1253, was a native of the parish. The Earl of Stradbroke takes his title from it.