Peacheys Almshouses were situated in Clay Street, Soham,  opposite the present day library, they were demolished a few years ago, we think for safety reasons as they were in a very dangerous condition, and were situated right up to the edge of the public pathway,  only their foundations were left until very recently, the area is now being redeveloped for housing.

By indenture, dated 21st April 1582, Thomas Peachey of Soham, Yeoman, enfeoffed Oliver Robins and seven others, therein named, of two tenements with the appurtenances in Soham, in s street called Clay Street, parcel of the tenement commonly called Lemmans, containing in length 30 yards, and in breadth 25 yards, of the standard; to hold to them and their heirs, to the use, that they should from time to time, daily and yearly, for ever, sustain, relieve, and cherish, the most poor, aged, impotent, and decayed inhabitants of the Town of Soham, to inhabit and dwell therein, and there to relieve, with devotion and charity, those inhabitants of the Town aforesaid, always keeping with necessary reparations  the said two tenements, and when, and as often as, need should require; with a proviso, when four of the said feoffees should die, that immediately, or so soon as reasonably might be, the four surviving feoffees  should enfeoff new feoffees of the premises, eight other men of full age of the Town of Soham, of the better inhabitants of the Town, to the same use.
The trusts here stated are collected from a deed appointing new trustees, executed in 1658, which is nearly obliterated.
By a decree of the Commissioners of the Bedford Level, a portion of Fen lands was allotted to these houses in lieu of Common rights, and by divers mesne conveyances, and ultimately by deed of feoffment, dated 2nd March 1829, the premises became vested in William Wilkin, since deceased, Julius Caesar Martin,  John Slack,  Robert Fyson,, John Hatch,  Ralph Eden,  Ellis Staples,  and William Jugg, and their heirs.
The allotment consists of two-third parts of the '' Town Lot, '' which contains in the whole 46a., and is so estimated in a Terrier of 1723. The remaining third is reputed copyhold, and belongs to Bond's Charity:  32a. are subject to a drainage tax of 3s. 6d. per acre, paid by the trustees. The whole Town lot is let to Joel Chambers for 10 years from Michaelmas 1834, at a fair rent of £50., of which one third is carried to the account of Bond's Charities. The lease provides for proper cultivation. The tenant has made considerable improvements, and is under covenant to build a barn, to be taken at a valuation, or pulled down by him at the expiration of the term.

The Almshouses consist of two buildings, divided into nine tenements, and inhabited by paupers, principally widows, all of whom are in receipt of Parochial relief.
The gross income of the charity amounts to £33. 6s. 8d. From 1828 to Christmas, 1835, the only payments made to the almspeople  have been sums, varying from £6. 13s. 10½d. to upwards of £13., annually expended in fuel: £1. 6s. is paid to William Warren, the Schoolmaster, for acting as clerk to the charity, and £1 has been hitherto expended in a dinner for the trustees, which it has been agreed to discontinue. After payment of the drainage and land taxes, the remainder of the rent has been absorbed in repairs, notwithstanding which the houses are in most wretched condition. The management has been extremely injudicious, although there appears no ground for imputing wilful misconduct to the trustees.
The conveyances have uniformly been by feoffment and reinfeoffment, instead of by single conveyances to use.