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Information about Dullingham circa 1900

DULLINGHAM is a parish and village, with a station on the Cambridge and Newmarket section of the Great Eastern railway, 68 miles from London, 4 south-west from Newmarket and 10 east from Cambridge, in the eastern division of the county, hundred of Radfield, union, petty sessional division and county court district of Newmarket, rural deanery of Fordham, archdeaconry of Sudbury and diocese of Ely. The church of St. Mary is an ancient building on stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower containing a clock and 5 bells: in the chancel are several fine monuments to the Jeafferson family, dating from 1733, one of which bears a recumbent figure in white marble of Lieut.-General Christopher Jeafferson, d. 22 Oct. 1824: there is also a tablet to Henrietta, wife of Anthony, 11th Viscount Gormanston, and subsequently of Lieut.-General Christopher Jeafferson, d. 6 Feb. 1826: the church was restored during the period 1884-90, at a cost of £680, and an organ provided at a further cost of £200, and in 1899 the oak roof was repaired at a cost of £800: there are 250 sittings. The register dates from the year 1538. the living is a vicarage, net yearly value £90, with 87 acres of glebe and residence, in the gift of Mrs. Robinson, and held since 1897 by the Rev. Alfred Augustus toms M.A. of Downing College, Cambridge. There is a small Wesleyan Methodist chapel. There are charities to the amount of about £100 yearly, the greater portion of which is given to the poor in clothing. Dullingham house, the seat of Mrs. Robinson, is pleasantly situated in the centre of the village. Lower Hare Park, 3 miles north-west, also the property of Mrs. Robinson, is the residence of Ernest de la Rue esq. Mrs. Robinson is lady of the manor and principal landowner. The soil is various: subsoil, chalk, and gravel. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 3, 387 acres; rateable value, £4, 116; the population in 1891 was 822.

Post Office.-Mrs Jane Gall, sub-postmistress. Letters arrive from Newmarket at 4.35 a.m.; dispatched at 7.55 p.m. Postal order are issued here, but not paid. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Stetchworth, 2 miles distant.

A School board of 5 members was formed May 21, 1875; Arthur Mackay Ellis LL.B. Newmarket, clerk to the board.

Board School, built in 1876 for 133 children; average attendance, 122; Alexander Cowley, master

Railway Station, Joseph John Chittock, station master

Carrier to Newmarket.-William Ward, from Borough grn

De la Rue Ernest, Lower Hare park (letters through Newmarket)
Robinson Mrs. Dullingham house
Toms Rev. Alfd. Augustus M.A. (vicar)

COMMERCIAL
Billings Alfred, boot & shoe maker
Cannon Joseph, race horse trainer, Lordship fa4rm (letters through Newmarket)
Challis Frederick, coal dealer & chimney sweeper
Clark John Francis (exors. of) farmers, Dullingham Ley
Clayton William, blacksmith
Day Charles, shopkeeper & farmer
Edwards James, shopkeeper
Flinn & Sons, maltsters
Hayhow Israel, market gardener
Hayward Arthur, beer retailer
Heath Henry, farmer
Hooper William, head gardener to Mrs. Robinson
Jennings Edward, farmer
Jennings Mattw, miller (wind)& baker
King George Linton, farmer, Clare House farm
Leonard George, coal merchant
Moore Elijah, turf commission agent
Moore Harry, Ye Olde King's Head hotel & posting establishment & farmer
Moore Joseph Henry, butcher & farmer
Page Colomon, beer retailer, Ley
Piper George, farmer, Widgham farm
Pryke Frederick, horse dealer
Richardson John, grocer, draper & beer retailer
Smith Charles William, beer retailer
Smith John William, builder, contractor, undertaker & house decorator; estimates given for general repairs
Smith William Henry, chimney sweepr
Tayoor Sidney, farmer, Hill house
Wollard William, farmer

* Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire 1900 (London: Kelly's Directories Limited, 1900), pp.117.