Columbine Hall, the Manor's bounds

For more about the people associated with Columbine Hall and Manor see Thorney Columbers

16th century

Notes made by Neil Langridge (in 2024) from a manuscript dated 11th March 1568 –{Suffolk Archive HA1/C/c/2/3/3} suggest that in the 16th century the ‘bounds’ of the  Manor of Columbine Hall extended from:

    • ‘a tenement sometime …of Keble called tyellor [maybe Newton Hall] in the north’,
    • then south westerly following of the Gipping river to include the water mills [on the Gipping between Stowmarket and the Uplands]
    • then returning eastward across to ‘Shepecote house ‘[Sheepgate Hall]
    • and back to ‘overthwart Thorney Greene’
    • and so back to ‘Dayre Meadowe’ (where the bungalows of Columbine Close now stand).
partial map of Stowupland

This extract of a modern map is included to make it easier to visulise the extent of the 16th century manor of Columbine.