Bardwell, Suffolk
Historical Description
Bardwell, a village and a parish in Suffolk. The village stands on a tributary of the Little Ouse river, 6¼ miles N of Thurston station on the G.E.R., and 8½ NE of Bury St Edmunds, and has a post and money order office under Bury St Edmunds; telegraph office, Ixworth. The parish comprises 3183 acres; population, 734. Some barrows occur on Bowbeck Heath. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, £520 with residence. Patron, St John's College, Oxford. The church has a tower, stained glass windows, and some good monuments, and was thoroughly renovated in 1853. There are Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels, and several ancient charities, which, under a scheme of the Charity Commissioners in 1883, are equally divided between the church, education, and the poor.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Suffolk | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Bardwell St. Peter and St. Paul | |
Hundred | Blackbourn | |
Poor Law union | Thingoe |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Bardwell from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bardwell (St. Peter and St. Paul))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Bardwell are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Suffolk papers online: