To my Wife Peace Sadler the dwelling in my Hall house in Orwell

The dangers of thatched cottages

"In an excellent situation for wind."

"To William Jeape my eldest son one shilling"

"One half of my cheese, all the salt and a potl of butter"

"to him and his eares for ever"

One of the earliest Orwell Wills

A seditious conventicler?

Formerly Town Farm, and then Meadowcroft Farm.

A historic farmhouse by the river, on the Malton Road.

Questions (and answers) first posed in the Christmas 2013 Orwell Bulletin, and some further questions to test you!

One of the few Orwell women who left a Will

Orwell's most eminent resident.

"unto my loving wife during the term of her natural life ye hall and chamber over it with the goods in them and one acre of wheat one acre of barley and half acre of peas every year except she marrey again."

What do you give if you have no money?

This street runs from Town Green Road (where this walk begins) to a point where it meets Stocks Lane. We have also included the cottage on Cross Lane footpath.

" I give her my biggest brasse pott and fower pewter dishes fower payres of sheetes a payer of pillows and a paire of pillowberes a Coverlett and a payer of blankets"

'Household stuffe and lumber'

"my Worldly Estate which God of his infinite goodness has blessed me with"

"Executors they paying and receiving all my debts and Legacys and bringing my body decently to the ground to be buried in good Christian like manner "

Aerial photo only.

"I give unto her two silver spoons, seaven payres of sheetes, six pillow-biers, one dozen of napkins, one long table cloth, two pewter dishes of the middle sort, the best feather bed in the kitchen Chamber." With Inventory.

"I give to my son William Addams my twelve nights of folding"

Family details of each man, mainly from the 1911 Census.

Town Green Road - its old houses and some items of interest.

"I give to Mary Griggs my daughter one redd cowe"

"Considering the frailty of this life, although there is nothing more certain than death, yet there is nothing more uncertain than the tyme of the cominge thereof"

The more photos the better. Have you got any to add?

From the Village Hall to the Malton Road.

One of the oldest houses in Orwell, dating from before 1500.

Your guide to the High Street from the Church to the Village Hall.

A listed building Grade II. Late 15th century.

"my will is that all my Children doo carrie and behave themselves as dutiful and obedient Children to theire loving Mother Joane "

Includes an Inventory of her belongings. Was she a "Phanatick?"

Most Wills from this area were proved in the Ely Court. However, a few were proved in the main Probate Court at Canterbury. These are listed first, some being available from The National Archives. Pages 1 - 5 give the Cambs Record Office holdings.

"I Thomas Rowninge weaver being sicke in body but whole in minde I praise god for it "

See also an Inventory of the house contents covered by this Will.

"my body I commend it to the Earth to be buryed in Christian and Decent manner not doubting of the raiseing of it again at the Generall Resurrextion by the Might and power of God"

This Will was not proved in common form because the Executrix departed this life before she had taken on the burthen thereof