POSLINGFORD is a village and parish, in Risbridge hundred and union, Haverhill
county court district, rural deanery of Clare, archdeaconry of Sudbury, and
diocese of Ely, West Suffolk, 2 ½ miles north-east from Clare. The church
(dedication unknown) is a small structure, and was restored and re-seated in
1852. The living, a discharged vicarage, has 9 acres of glebe and a yearly
rent-charge of £100, awarded in 1841, in the gift of T. H. Elwes, Esq., and held
by the Rev. W. L. Suttaby, M.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge. In this
parish are the remains of an
old abbey, called Chipley Abbey, the property of the infant son of Captain
Dashwood, now occupied as a farmhouse. The abbey land is tithe free, and the
owner receives small moduses in lieu of tithes from owners within the boundary.
Samuel Ware, Esq., is lord of the manor. The population in 1861 was 350, and the
area is 2,438 acres; the soil is chiefly clay, and the crops arc wheat, barley,
oats and beans.
Parish Clerk, Joseph Richardson.
Letters through Clare, which is the nearest money order office
Bennett Mr. John W. Wentford house Severne Mrs. Shadow house Suttaby Rev. William L. M.A [vicar]