OR, ORIGINAL DELINEATIONS, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, OF THAT COUNTY. THE RESULT OF PERSONAL SURVEY. BY MR. SHOBERL.. ILLUSTRATED WITH THIRTEEN ENGRAVINGS AND A MAP. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J.HARRIS, CORNER OFŞT. PAUL'S CHURCHÝARD. 1818. THE BEAUTIES OF England and Wales. SUFFOLK. SITUATION AND EXTENT. SUFFOLK is bounded on the north by Norfolk, on the east by the German Ocean, on the south by Essex, from which it is divided by the river Stour, and on the west by Cambridgeshire. On Mr. Hodskinson's map of this county may be measured an oblong of almost unindented form, forty-seven miles long by twenty-seven broad. The land stretching beyond it in the northeast and north-west parts will more than compensate the deficiency in other quarters. This form indicates a surface of 1269 square miles, or 812,160 acres. In Templeman's Survey, he makes it only 1236 square miles; but Mr. Arthur Young is of opinion that the superficial contents of Suffolk may be computed at about 800,000 acres. DIVISION AND POPULATION.-Its two grand divisions are, the franchise or liberty of Bury St. Edmund's, and the body of the county, or guildable land, each of which furnishes a distinct grand jury for the county assizes. These are subdivided into twenty-one hundreds, comprehending 523 parishes. The hundreds, according to the return made in 1801, are as follow: VOL. XIV. B HUN. Lothingland S Thingoe .... HOUSES. By ho w Inhabi-many fated. milies Occupied Uninhabited. OCCUPATIONS. Chiefly In trade,f Persons employ-manufac other In all ed in tures, or Agricul-handiture. craft. 3147 3944 71 18,685 1572 1795 2348 33 7,384 2487 14 13,299 1505 2347 31 8,384 1145 1710 13 8,549 1680 2176 32 10,894 860 1506 17 7,259 13 10,042 1070 593 1590 † 1986 665 855 399 619 2 1661 1992 1670 1913 1089 1487 11 716 973 11 1668 1987 41 719 1048 10 1360 2170 594 2520 7436 7018 2760 1205 2,946 1273 2209 1666 2462 1510 2045 2506 4 4,300 3804 3857 1715 3557 4121 16'5 2525 4872 1486 16 9,578 36 9,409 7,457 4,982 10,037 94 448 occupations. 5,298 1648 37 7,655 1810 8733 771 4198 6190 1924 3365 39 625 2624 30,253 43,481 552 210,43155,744 34,064 113692| In order to obtain an accurate knowledge of the population of Suffolk, Mr. Arthur Young took the trouble, in 1796, to write to all the rectors and vicars in the county, requesting the births and burials from their registers for the twenty preceding years, with an enumeration of the houses and people. To above four hundred letters, he received two hundred and sixty answers. These enabled him to form The last ten hundred are incorporated. ↑ In the original here is an error; it is entered 1086, but by turning to the detail it appears to be 1986. |
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