Rumburgh, Suffolk

Description
Rumburgh, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, 4 1/2 miles NW by N of Halesworth station on the East Suffolk branch of the G.E.R. It has a post office under Halesworth; money order and telegraph office, Halesworth. Acreage, 1538; population of the civil parish, 378; of the ecclesiastical, 494. An Augustinian priory, a cell to holme Abbey, was founded in 1065 by Stephen, Earl of Bretagne, was given at the dissolution to Cardinal Wolsey, and has left some remains at a farmhouse. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of South Elmham St Michael, in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £62 with residence. The church is a curious old edifice of flint in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave, and S porch with a low western tower. There are town-lands church property worth about £68 a year. The village contains a Wesleyan chapel built in 1836.