WICKHAM-MARKET, (Suffolk) on the r. Deben, 4 m. from Woodbridge, had once a Mt. of which there are yet some tokens on S.
and is as big as many Ts. that have it still. It is a place of indifferent trade, and has several good inns, it being a
thoroughfare about half a m. on the road from Woodbridge to Yarmouth. The quarter sessions were held here, having had a
shire-hall for that purpose; but they were removed by the Ld. of the manor, and the hall converted into a farm-house at
Letheringham, now called the Old Hall; yet the civil and spiritual courts for the archdeaconry of Suffolk are still held
here. The Ch. stands on a hill; so that from the top of its steeple, though but 23 yards high, there is a prospect, in a
clear day, of near 50 p.-Chs. and it serves the sailors for a sea-mark. The Lp. anciently bel. to the Sackvils; one of
whom in the R. of Hen. I. gave it to the monks of St. John in Colchester. It afterwards came to the Lds. Willoughby of
Eresby.