Thurlow, Little (St. Peter)

THURLOW, LITTLE (St. Peter), a parish, in the union and hundred of Risbridge, W. division of Suffolk, 5½ miles (N. by E.) from Haverhill; containing 422 inhabitants. Little Thurlow Hall, which has been the seat of the Soame family since the reign of Elizabeth, was built by Sir Stephen Soame, Knt., lord mayor of London, who was buried in the parish church, under a handsome monument. The living is a rectory, valued iu the king's books at £7. 10. 5.; net income, £401; patron, the Rev. T. Crick. Sir Stephen Soame, in 1618, founded and endowed an almshouse for eight unmarried men or women, and a school for twenty boys.