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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.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountySuffolk 
Ecclesiastical parishCorton St. Bartholomew 
HundredMutford 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:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.


Maps

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Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Suffolk papers online:

DistrictWaveney
CountySuffolk
RegionEastern
CountryEngland
Postal districtNR32
Post TownLowestoft

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