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SOUTHERY is a considerable village, on the London road, 7 miles S. of Downham, on a gentle eminence surrounded by fens and marshes. Its parish increased its inhabitants from 739 in 1831, to 1023 in 1841, and contains about 3,500 acres of land, watered by the Great Ouse river, over which there is a Ferry, about a mile S.W. of the church. Near the ferry, a steam engine, of 60 horse power, was erected in 1842, for improving the drainage of the fens.
Robt. Cunningham Taylor, Esq., is lord of the manor; but the soil belongs to several proprietors.
The CHURCH (St. Mary,) is a neat fabric without a tower. The rectory, valued in K.B. at £7 10s., and in 1831 at £303, is in the gift of Geo. Hall, Esq., of Ely, and the incumbency of the Rev. Chas. Mann.
Here is a National School, established in 1844; and a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1842. The Baptists and Primitive Methodists have preaching rooms in the village.
Cattermole George tailor Eastgate Jonathan shoemaker Grimditch William wheelwright Hardy William butcher Osler John blacksmith Osler George land surveyor Peckett Hephsba dress maker Reeve William corn miller PUBLIC HOUSES. Crown & Anchor James Bowden Bell William Peckett Boat Elizabeth Porter, Ferry Plough James Tingey Beer Houses. Fuller Cooper Galley Mary Watson Richard FARMERS.(* are Owners) Boyce William Osler John *Porter Robert Robinson Fredk. Russell Philip *Sayle Jno. Northfield House Sayle Thomas Savage William Peacock Thornhill John *Weasenham Ths. Ferry Bank Shopkeepers. Barley Francis Palmer John Peckett Susan Porter William Rodgers William
POST OFFICE, at Wm Porter's; letters desp. at 5 afternoon
CARRIERS, Wm. Rodgers, to Ely, thurs., & Downham, sat.; and A. Peckett, to Lynn, tuesday
From ERRATA on page 816:
Rev. Theodore Shurt, B.A., curate of Southery.
Copyright © Mike Bristow.
June 2000