Sudbury All Saints with Ballingdon and Brundon, Essex Genealogy

Essex Essex Parishes

Sudbury is a market town in Suffolk. Part of the homes are in Essex but the church is in Suffolk.

Here is an 1870 historical treatise for this township:

"SUDBURY, a town, three parishes, an extra-parochial tract, a sub-district, and a district, in Suffolk. The town stands on the river Stour, and on the Cambridge and Colchester railway, 21 miles W by S of Ipswich; was known to the Saxons as Suthberie or Sudberi; had a mint at Domesday; acquired afterwards a college, an Augustinian friary, a Dominican friary, a Benedictine cell, and a house of the Knights Hospitallers; was one of the first towns selected by Edward III. for the settlement of Flemings, in order to the introduction of woollen manufacture; numbers among its natives Gainsborough the painter, and Enfield author of the "Speaker"; gives the title of Baron to the Duke of Grafton; is a seat of quarter-sessions and county courts, and a polling place; publishes two weekly newspapers; carries on manufactures of silk and velvet; consists of several irregular streets; presents a neat and clean appearance; and has a head post-office,‡ a r. station with telegraph, two banking offices, two chief inns, a town hall, a corn exchange, a temperance hall, three fine ancient churches, six dissenting chapels, a literary institution, an endowed grammar-school with £90 a year, two other endowed schools with £24 and £20, an alms-house hospital with £19, other charities £170, a workhouse, a corn market on Thursdays, and a general market on Saturdays. It was made a borough by Queen Elizabeth; is governed, under the new act, by a mayor, 4 aldermen, and 12 councillors; sent two members to parliament till 1848; and was then disfranchised. The borough limits include the three parishes and the extra-parochial tract of S., and the Essex parish of Ballingdon-cum-Brundon. Pop. of the borough in 1851, 6,043; in 1861, 6,879. Houses, 1,484.

The living [parish] of Sudbury All Saints is a vicarage united with Ballingdon [in Essex]..."

John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870)