History of the parish of Buxhall in the county of Suffolk; with twenty-four full-plate illustrations and a large parish map (containing all the field names) specially drawn for the work . h of Onehouse. A branch, however, near Little Introductory Itinerary 11 Fenn Farm enters the Parish, and after running slightly in a northerly direction,is divided into two branches ; one, running north past Deepwell Cottages, entersthe Parish of Rattlesden, and the other, after running in a southerly direction thenwesterly and passing at the back of Fenn Hall, an ancient manorial residence, in thetime of Wil
History of the parish of Buxhall in the county of Suffolk; with twenty-four full-plate illustrations and a large parish map (containing all the field names) specially drawn for the work . h of Onehouse. A branch, however, near Little Introductory Itinerary 11 Fenn Farm enters the Parish, and after running slightly in a northerly direction,is divided into two branches ; one, running north past Deepwell Cottages, entersthe Parish of Rattlesden, and the other, after running in a southerly direction thenwesterly and passing at the back of Fenn Hall, an ancient manorial residence, in thetime of William the Conqueror belonging to Frodo, brother of Baldwin, Abbot ofBury, and later to the Revitts, now belonging to the Spinks family (the Manorbeing in Sir Joshua-Thelluson Rowley), joins Barons Lane, where it takes a coursedue south and finds exit in the Buxhall and Rattlesden road at the Hollybush we take leave of the reader to enter upon the more serious portionof our work. Oh ! in a spot so fair as this, Which Natures heavenly handHas painted for her bower of bliss. Her Eden of the land ;In this fair spot lifes stream should glideOne sweet, unchanged, unbroken CHAPTER IThe Parish, Descriptive and Historic NOTWITHSTANDING the importance and antiquity of the Parish ofBuxhall, vying, so far as age is concerned, with the oldest portion ofinhabitable land in the realm and the conservative principles whichanimate the heart of the writer, it is not proposed to follow the good old exampleof tracing the condition of the parish from the time of the Deluge, or even fromthe age of the Roman Visitation. Some have piously thought it absolutely necessarythat the historian should arbitrarily descend from generals to particulars in this way,and that the orthodox mode of commencing the history of a hundred or of a parishis to start, say, with a dissertation of the original formation of the earth out ofchaos, then by gradual steps approach to the historic period, and by a du
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