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"SUDBURY, a parish, market town, and municipal borough, chiefly in the hundred of Babergh, county Suffolk, but including the parish of Ballingdon-cum-Brundon, county Essex, 20 miles S.W. of Ipswich, and 7 S.E. of Clare. It is a station on the Marks Tay branch of the Great Eastern railway. It is situated at the bridge over the river Stour, which is navigable hence to Manningtree, and here divides the counties of Suffolk and Essex. It is a place of great antiquity, and was the Saxon Sudberie, or South Burgh. At the period of the Norman survey it had a market and mint, and was settled by Edward III. with a colony of Flemings, who introduced the manufacture of woollen cloth, and that branch of trade continued to flourish for some time. There are manufactories of bunting, and seven extensive manufactories for silk, velvet, satin, plush, and other rich fabrics. It was first chartered by Queen Elizabeth, and returned two members to parliament till 1843, when it was disfranchised for bribery. Under the Municipal Act of 1835 the town council consists of a mayor, 4 aldermen, and 12 councillors. The corporation revenue produces about £850 per annum. The population of the borough in 1851 was 5,225, and in 1861, 6,879. The houses are in general well built, and of late years the town has been considerably improved. The streets are paved and lighted under an Act obtained in 1825. It contains a new townhall and borough gaol, erected by the corporation on Market Hill; a corn exchange, a savings-bank, two branch banks, union poor-house, and literary institution, with museum and library attached. Quarter and petty sessions are held in the townhall, in which assemblies also take place."
From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003
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