Campsea Ash, Suffolk

Description
Campsea-Ash or Ashe-by-Campsea, a small village and a parish in Suffolk, 2 1/2 miles from Wickham Market, on the East Suffolk railway, and having an important station at Wickham Market. Campsea-Ash is also the junction for Framlingham. It has a post and money order office under Wickham Market, which is the telegraph office. Acreage, 1825; population, 240. Ashe High House is a fine country seat, the property of the Lowther family. It stands in a well-timbered park, which abounds with deer. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; tithe commuted at £432. Patron, the Right Hon. Lord Rendlesham. The church of St John the Baptist has been restored. It has a beautiful tower, and a brass to the memory of a priest. A nunnery of St Clare was founded here in the time of King John by Theobald de Valoines, and some remains of it are to be seen at the Abbey Farm.