Stowupland Town Meadow

In the 1840s tithe apportionments this was no 337, the landowners are Stowupland Feoffees and the occupier John Stedman

hand drawn map with labels
sketched map of fields along Main Road in 1840

To show the location of the strip of land known as Stowupland Town Meadow. In the 1870s Stowupland Parsonage/vicarage would be built on Marks Field.

This should not be confused with Town Land or Little Town Land to the west of the Main Road (tm 304 and 305, Earl Stonham Town Lands).

1716 – containing three acres more or less abutting on the road to Mendlesham on the North, on Mr Saers land to the west and North and Wiliam Grimwood lands to the East now in the occupation of Thomas Wells at the yearly rent of Four Pounds Ten Shillings.

The 1839/40 tithe apportionments gives us other properties for which the land owners were Stowupland Feoffees. To the East of Saxham Street, a strip of fields adjacent to Stonham fields were 7 fields that were occupied by John Stedman: 230- 6acre field, 231 – Barn Pightie, 232 -Barn Yard, 233- Barn piece, 235 – 8 acre field, 236 – 6 acre field and 237 – Stowupland Town Meadow.

sketch map of 1840 fields in Stowupland
19th century fields owned by Stowupland and Stonham feoffees