Part of village, Ashley c.1908
Part of the old green and village shops
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| Ashley-cum-Silverley Part of village, Ashley c.1908 |
| Ashley-cum-Silverley Part of the old green and village shops |
ASHLEY-cum-SILVERLEY is a village and parish, on the Suffolk border of the county, 4 miles south east from Newmarket and the same distance from Kennett station on the Cambridge and Bury St. Edmund section of the Great Eastern railway, in the Eastern division of the county, hundred of Cheveley, Newmarket union, petty sessional division and county court district rural deanery of Thurlow, archdeaconry of Sudbury and diocese of Ely. The church of St.Mary, opened in November, 1845, is a cruciform building of flint with Bath stone dressings, and consists of chancel, nave and transepts and a western turret containing one bell: then are 300 sittings. The register dates from the year 1746.
The living is a rectory, with the norminal vicarage of Silverley annexed, joint net yearly value from 273 acres of glebe £170 , with residence, in the gift of and held since 1887 by the Rev. Edmond Casey, of St. Aidans's who is non-resident. The church of All Saints, Silverley, about 1 mile distant, is in ruins, the tower only remaining. There was also an older church on the Dalham road, but few traces of which now exist. Lord North, who is lord of the manor, Col. H. L. B. MeCalmont M.P. of Cheveley Park, and the rector are the principal landowners. The oil is clayey; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The area is 2,225 acres; rateable value, £2,399; the population in 1891 was 455.
Parish Clerk, James Ranner.
Post Offlce.-Mrs. Jane Ransom,, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive from Newmarket at 5.30 a.m.; dispatched at 7.10 p.m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Cheveley, 2 miles distant Wall Letter Box, Silverley, cleared at 5.30 p.m. daily. sundays excepted
A School Board of 5 members was formed may 1, 1875; Sidney J. Enion, Newmarket, clerk to the board Board School, built in 1879, for 120 children; average attendance, 90; Fred Murgatroyd, master; Mrs. Murgatroyd, mistress Carriers.-John Dodd, to Bury, wed. & sat.; Alfred Dodd, to Newmarket, daily
Dodd Rev. William George (curate)