Kelly
UGGESHALL ii a village and parish about 4 miles south-east from Brampton station on the Ipswich and Lowestoft section of the London and North Eastern railway, 4 north-west from Southwold and 5.5 east-northeast from Halesworth, in the Eye division of the county, Blything hundred, petty sessional division and union, Halesworth and Saxmundham county court district, rural deanery of North Dunwich, archdeaconry of Suffolk and diocese of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich. The church of St. Mary is an ancient fabric, principally of flint, in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, a porch on the south side, a dilapidated western tower, re-roofed in 1920, and one bell: the organ, presented to the church in 1873, was enlarged and improved in 1890, and there is a handsome octagonal font, restored by a former rector in 1856, the cover of which is surmounted by a " pelican in her piety:" there is a brass in memory of the men of the parish who fell in the Great War, 1914-18: the communion plate includes a paten, chalice dated 1568, and an alms dish: the church affords 135 sittings. The register dates from the year 1558. The living is a rectory, consolidated with that of Sotherton, joint net yearly value £500, with residence, in the gift of the Eaarl of Stradbroke, and. held since 1886 by the Rev. Arthur Ashton B.D. of Queen's College, Oxford. A piece of land allotted to the poor in compensation for right of common produces a yearly rent of £4, and this sum, together with the rent of the town house, now let at £4 10s. a year, is distributed in coals; Ganders' is a charity value 10s. yearly, distributed among the widows. The Earl of Stradbroke K.C.M.O., C.B., C.V.O., C.B.E.,D.L., J.P. is lord of the manor and owners of nearly all the land. The toil is mixed; sob-soil, sand and clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, peas, beans and turnips. The area is 1,490 acres of land and 3 of water; the population in 1931 was 224 in the civil and 368 in the ecclesiastical parish.
Sexton, Henry Leveret.
Post Office. Letters through Beccles. Wangford is the nearest M.O.& T. office.
Dutt
Uggeshall church (4 m. S E. of Brampton and 4 N.W. of Southwold) is Perp., with earlier survivals. Note the Perp. font with cover.
Church view
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