Hadleigh

Hadleigh, a quaint old market-town of Suffolk, on the Bret, $9\backslash frac\{1\}\{2\}$ miles ($12\backslash frac\{1\}\{2\}$ by a branch-line) W. of Ipswich. Its chief buildings are the brick Rectory Tower (1495) and the noble parish church, with a spire 135 feet high. Formerly, from 1331, an important seat of the cloth-trade, Hadleigh was the scene of the death of the Danish king Guthrum (889), of the martyrdom of Dr Rowland Taylor (1555), and of the 'great conference' (1833) out of which grew the 'Tracts for the Times,' and at which Newman, Hurrell Froude, Trench, and Rose, the then rector, were present. Pop. of parish (1851) 3716; (1891) 3229.