Description
Semer, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, on the river Brett, 3 miles NNW of Hadleigh station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Ipswich; money order and telegraph office, Bildeston. Acreage, 1242; population of the civil parish, 305; of the ecclesiastical, 344. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. Semer Lodge is a chief residence. The workhouse for Cosford union stands within this parish, and is a plain building of brick erected in 1780 to accommodate 400 inmates. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; gross value, £498 with residence. The church is a Norman building of flint and stone, consisting of chancel, nave, vestry, S porch, and western embattled tower.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
