Description
Hargrave, a village and a parish in Suffolk, 4 miles SSW from Saxham station on the G.E.R., and 6 SW by W from Bury St Edmunds. Post town, Bury St Edmunds; money order and telegraph office, Barrow. Acreage, 1781; population of the civil parish, 378; of the ecclesiastical, 358. The manor belonged to Bury Abbey, passed to the Ritsons and the Gages, and belongs now to the Marquis of Bristol. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, £200 with residence. The church is an ancient building of flint and stone in Early English style.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
