HARDWICK is a parish, one mile and a half south-by-west from Bury St. Edmund's
railway station, in the western division of Suffolk, hundred and union of
Thingoe. There is no church or any other public building within this parish. The
acreage is included in Hawstead parish. Hardwick Cullum Lady, Hardwick house
House, the seat of Lady Cullum, stands in a finely wooded park, which was once
an extra-parochial demesne. The population in 1861 was 25.
Letters from Bury St. Edmund's, which is also the nearest money order office
Barrett Samuel, land agent to Lady Cullum
HARGRAVE is a scattered village and parish, in Thingoe hundred and union, Bury
St. Edmund's county court district, Clare rural deanery, Sudbury archdeaconry,
diocese of Elv, West Suffolk, 6 ½ miles south-west from Bury St. Edmunds
station. The church has a tower and 3 bells, a nave and chancel, and porch. The
register dates from the middle of the sixteenth century. The living is a
rectory, valued in 1835 at £283, with 27 acres of glebe land, in the gift of the
Rev. John White, and held by the Rev. John White Westliorpe. The Marquis of
Bristol is lord of the manor, which was held by Bury Abbey, afterwards by the
Kitsons and Gages. The poor have £20 a year from Dayne's Charity, with several
other small donations. The Marquis of Bristol and Sir Robert Affleck, Bart., are
the chief landowners, but there are a few smaller proprietors. The soil is clay
and loam; subsoil, clay, gravel, and chalk. The crops are wheat, barley, and
beans. Here is a small parochial school. The population in 1861 was 520, and the
area is 1,108 acres.
FROGSEND and Birdsend are to the east. Southwell Park, formerly extra-parochial,
is about half a mile west.
Parish Clerk, John Banks. Letters through Bury St. Edmund's by foot post.
Wickhamhrook is the nearest money order office. Parochial School, Miss Emma
Dale, mistress