Kelly
STOVEN is a parish and village, 2.5 miles sonth-east from Brampton station on the Ipswich and Lowestoft section of the London and North Eastern railway, and 5 north-east-by-east from Halesworth, in the Eye division of the county, union, petty sessional division and hundred of Blything, county court district of Halesworth and Saxmundham, rural deanery of North Dunwich, archdeaconry of Suffolk and diocese of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich. The church of St. Margaret is a small but ancient Norman edifice consisting of chancel, nave and a western tower containing one bell: it was thoroughly repaired in 1849, and is seated throughout with open benches, affording 120 sittings. The register dates from the year 1653. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £110, with residence and 8 acres of glebe, in the gift of and held since 1914 by the Rev. Herbert Alfred Phelps Gardiner M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge, who is also rector of and resides at Brampton. The Earl of Stradbroke K.C.M.O., C.T.O., O.B., C.B.E., D.L., J.P. who is lord of the manor, and the trustees of the late Major Miles Barne are the chief landowners. The soil is partly mixed and partly heavy; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and roots. The area is 806 acres; the population in 1931 was 117.
Sexton, Austin Suggate. Letters through Beccles.
Wangford is the nearest M. O. & T. office.
Dutt
Stoven (2 and a half m. S.E. of Brampton) has a small church, with Norm. doorway. The rest of the church is rebuilt in the Norm. style.
Church view
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