Corton, Suffolk
Historical Description
Corton, a village and a parish in Suffolk, on the coast, 3 miles N by W of Lowestoft, which is the railway station. There is a post and telegraph office under Lowestoft; money order office, Lowestoft. Acreage of parish, 1178; population, 577. The sea has made encroachments. Mammoth bones and other interesting fossils have been found. The living" is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £135. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church, a building of flint and stone in the Early English style, has a lofty tower used as a landmark by seamen. A portion of the building is an ivy-covered ruin. There is a United Methodist chapel here.. The village is a coastguard station, and the Board of Trade has a rocket life-saving apparatus.
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 | Corton St. Bartholomew | |
Hundred | Mutford and Lothingland |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Corton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Corton (St. Bartholomew))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Corton 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: