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Reed 1865 Post Office Directory
REDE (or REED) is a village and parish, in the hundred, union and rural deanery
of Thingoe, county court district of Bury St. Edmund's, archdeaconry of Sudbury,
and diocese of Ely, West Suffolk, 7 miles south-south-west from Bury station.
The church of All Saints, which is a small edifice, has nave and chancel, with a
tower and 3 bells, and was restored in 1850. The living is a discharged rectory,
having a yearly rent-charge of £286 in lieu of tithes, with residence and 46
acres of glebe, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and held by the Rev. George
Francis Turner, M.A., of Trinity College, Oxford. A National school is supported
by an endowment of land left by Thomas Sparkes in 1721, producing about £20 a
year, with about £12 a year paid from the Hon. William Hervey's charity; and the
poor have £3 a year from Sir Robert Drury's charity, also six tons of coal
yearly, and the school one ton from General Hervey's charity. The soil is clay.
The crops are wheat, barley, oats, beans, and peas. The population in 1861 was
245, and the area is 1,224 acres. The Marquis of Bristol is lord of the manor
and chief landowner.
Parish Clerk, Joseph Clarke.
Letters received through Bury, arrive at 9 a.m. & are dispatched at 5.30 p.m.
Wickhambrook is the nearest money order office
National School, Miss Martha Merrington, mistress
CARRIER TO BURY ST. EDMUND'S.—George Clarke, Wednesday & Saturday
Turner Rev. George F. M.A.,J.P..Rectory
COMMERCIAL.
Clarke. George, carrier
Deane Maurice B. farmer
Eliot Samuel, shopkeeper
Merrington John, farmer
Murrills Melliuent (Mrs.), farmer
Nunn James, shopkeeper
Rollinson John & William P. farmers, The Hall
Rollinson George, farmer, The Kiln
Williams Richard, blacksmith