Description
Finborough, Great, a village and a parish in Suffolk, on a tributary of the Gipping, 3 miles WSW of Stowmarket station on the G.E.R., with a post and money order office under Stowmarkefc; telegraph office, Stowmarket. Acreage, 1695 ; population, 462. The manor belonged to the Wollas-tons, and passed to the Pettiwards. Finborough Hall is a chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £180. Patron, the Bishop of Norwich. The church was rebuilt in 1874-75 in the Decorated style. It contains some monuments of the Wollastons. There is a Congregational chapel. Finborough Hall is a mansion of white brick, standing in a park of 200 acres. Wollasfcon, the writer of the " Religion of Nature," was a native.
Great Finborough, Suffolk
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
