Charsfield, 6 1/2 miles N. of Woodbridge, and 5 1/2 miles S.S.W. of Framlingham, is a scattered village, on a pleasant eminence, and has in its parish 551 souls, and 1290 acres of land. Earl Howe is lord of the manor, which was held by Wm. De Weyland in the time of King John and afterwards by the Bedingfields and Lemans. The Church (St. Peter) has a tower, five bells, and a handsome porch, over which are the arms of the Wingfields. It was new roofed in 1841, and was appropriated, in monastic times, to Letheringham Priory. The benefice is a perpetual curacy, worth only about £60 a year, of which £27 arises from Queen Anne’s Bounty. Earl Howe is patron and impropriator. And the Rev. W.B. Bransby is the incumbent, and has an ancient residence, called the Rectory House. The rectorial tithes of the land not belonging to the impropriator, have been commuted for £160 per annum. Here is a Baptist Chapel, built in 1808, at the cost of £400. In 1816, Joseph Kersey left £800, to be invested in the purchase of stock, and the dividends to be distributed in bread and coals among the resident industrious poor of Charsfield, Earl-Soham, Dallinghoo, and Marlesford. With this legacy, £832. 18s. 4d. new four per cent annuities were purchased, so that each of the four parishes receives £8. 6s. 7d. yearly.

Acfield Robert, grocer and draper

Stenton, George Ashford, corn miller

Bransby Rev Wm. B. incumbent

Taylor Robert, butcher

Garnham John, boot & shoe maker

Thredkell Thomas, corn miller

Keer John, collar and harness maker

Wright John, butcher

Leech David, tailor

FARMERS

Leech Wm. Bricklayer and beerhouse

Burch John

Burch Jeremiah

Leggett George, wheelwright

Burwood John

Farrer Henry

Leggett John, bricklayer

Hodgson John Robert, Hall

Marjoram Fanny, vict. Horse Shoe

Lucock Francis

Meadows John

Motum Thomas, blacksmith

Leggett James

Leggett John

Pemberton Wm. joiner

Mayhew John

Page Wm.

Read Wm. shopkeeper

Randall Samuel

Thredkell Wm.

Runnacles Rev, John, Baptist min