Bosmere & Claydon Hundred in Suffolk - in 1855.

BOSMERE AND CLAYDON HUNDRED
Is a fertile and picturesque district, varying from eight to about 12 miles in length and breadth ; comprising the small town of Needham Market, 33 parishes, and parts of two other parishes; bounded on the south by the Borough of Ipswich and Samford Hundred; on the west, by Cosford and Stow Hundreds ; on the north, by Hartismere and Thredling Hundreds; and on the east by Carlford Hundred. It is in the Eastern Division of Suffolk, in the Union to which it gives name; in the Deaneries of Bosmere and Claydon, in the Archdeaconry of Suffolk, and Diocese of Norwich. It has generally a clayey soil, well suited to the growth of corn, and is crossed by good turnpike roads, by the Eastern Union Railway; and by the small but navigable river Gipping, which at Ipswich takes the name of Orwell, and assumes the character of a broad estuary. The Hundred derives its name from the parish of Claydon, and a mere or lake near Needham Market. Its High Constables are Messrs. Geo. Morgan, of Bramford; and Wm. Haward, of Little Blakenham. Petty Sessions are held at Ipswich every Tuesday, and at Needham Market on alternate Wednesdays. The following enumeration of the parishes of this Hundred shows their territorial extent and their population in 1851:—