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Samford Hundred in Suffolk - 1844 & 1855.Suffolk Pubs History SAMFORD HUNDRED Now forms SAMFORD UNION, under the new poor law, but its 28 parishes were incorporated for the maintenance of their poor, under Gilbert's Act, in 1704. It is in the Deanery to which it gives name, in the Archdeaconry of Suffolk, and Diocese of Norwich. It has generally a rich and loamy soil, and is a picturesque and well-cultivated district, the south-eastern portion of which forms a fertile peninsula, between the estuaries of the Orwell and Stour, terminating at the confluence of those broad arms of the sea, opposite Harwich. It is of an angular figure, and its western side is about nine, and each of its other sides fourteen miles in length. It is bounded on the south by the river Stour, which separates it from Essex; on the west, by Babergh and Hartismere Hundreds; on the north, by Bosmere and Clayton Hundred, and the borough of Ipswich ; and on the east, by the Orwell estuary. It is watered by several rivulets, and intersected by the railway from Ipswich to Colchester and Hadleigh. It has no market town, but those of Ipswich, Manningtree, (in Essex,) Nayland, and Hadleigh, are near its borders. Mr. John Brooke, of Capel St. Mary, is the High Constable. A map in 1836 Every Essex and London Pub too Here is a start to Samford. Quoting from the Whites 1844 Directory. And links are to the 1841 census. Whites 1844 Directory.
Whites 1855 Directory
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