My Grandmother Martha Ellen Flowers as a young girl lived with her family at WESTLEIGH HALL COTTAGES. WESTLEIGH. SUFFOLK. Can anyone give me any information of these cottages, are they still standing, and has anyone a photo. I assume they were Farm Cattages attached to Westleigh Hall. Any information of the cottages and the Hall would be most welcome.
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Westley is to the west of Bury St Edmunds and Westley Hall is still there.
The village is really just a suburb of the town now.
In 1844 Walter Burrell occupied Westley Hall (you would need to check the apportionment book to see who actually owned it - I have a feeling that it may have belonged to the Marquis of Bristol at Ickworth). The church there was St Thomas a Becket, but it was in ruins a couple of hundred years ago. The 'new' church dedicated to St Mary was built in 1836 - the combined PRs are available at the SRO from 1565-1900 on just 7 fiche.
Best wishes, SM ...
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