Description

Aldringham-cum-Thorpe, a village and a parish in Suffolk. The village stands near the coast and 1 mile S of Leiston station on the G.E.R., and 2 1/4 miles N of Aldborough. It was formerly a market-town, and it still has a pleasure fair on 11 Dec. The parish contains also the hamlet of Thorpe. It has a post office under Saxmundham; money order and telegraph office, Leiston. Acreage, 1692, with 51 of water; population, 577. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich, and includes the curacy of Thorpe; gross yearly value, £84 with residence. The church is transition Norman, and has an octagonal font. There is a Baptist chapel. Aldringham House is a country residence here.