Onehouse, Suffolk

Description
Onehouse, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, 2 miles W by N of Stowmarket station on the G.E.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Stowmarket. Acreage, 926; population, 318. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor belongs to the Pettiward family. Onehouse Hall is a chief residence. A moated seat of the Burghershes was on a spot now occupied by a farmhouse. The Stow Workhouse stands on an elevated site in the E, between the village and Stowmarket, and is a building of red brick which was erected in 1778, with capacity for 254 inmates. There is a mineral spring. The living is a rectory, united with that of Harlestone, in the diocese of Norwich ; joint gross value, £320 with residence. The church is a plain good building of flint and brick, was originally Norman, consists of nave and chancel with a curious round tower, and contains an ancient unhewn stone font. Davy, the author of " Letters on Literature," was buried here.