East Bergholt, Suffolk

Description
Bergholt, East, a small town and a parish in Suffolk, on the river Stour, midway between the Manningtree and Bentley stations on the G.E.R., 9 miles SW of Ipswich, with a post, money order, and telegraph office (S.O.) Acreage, 3140; population, 1316. Ackworth House is a fine country seat, standing in a good position, and commanding extensive views. West Lodge is also a fine seat, and East Bergholt Lodge is beautifully situated amid fine woods. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £382 with residence. Patron, Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The church is a building of flint in the Perpendicular style, and there are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels, a Benedictine nunnery and chapel, a cemetery under the control of a Burial Board, and numerous charities. John Constable the painter, born in 1776, was a native. There is a stained window in the church erected to his memory.