Description
Wetherden, a parish, with a scattered village, in Suffolk, 1 1/2 mile E by S of Elmswell station on the G.E.R., and 4 miles NW of Stowmarket. It has a post office under Stowmarket; money order and telegraph office, Haughley. Acreage, 1856; population, 452. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor belongs to Lord Thurlow. Wetherden Hall was the seat of the Sulyards, and is now a farmhouse. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £360 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is a fine old building of flint in the Early English style, and was restored in 1872. There are an endowed school, a charity for six widows, and a small Baptist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
