Homersfield, Suffolk

Description
Homersfield or St Mary South TtlmTin-ni, a village and a parish in Suffolk, The village stands on the river Wave-ney, at the boundary with Norfolk, near the Waveney Valley branch of the G.E.R., 4 miles SW from Bnngay, and has a station on the railway. It has a post office under Harleston; money order and telegraph office, Harleston. The parish comprises 1005 acres; population of the civil parish, 160; of the ecclesiastical parish, with South Elmham Saint Cross, 382. The property almost entirely belongs to the Adair family, who are lords of the manor. A residence of the Bishop of Norwich was here in the time of Henry III. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of South Elmham Saint Cross, in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £200. The church is of mixed styles with Norman portions, has an ivy-clad tower, and was repaired in 1865 and again in 1890.