Cotton, Suffolk

Historical Description

Cotton, a village and a parish in Suffolk, three-quarters of a mile S of Finningham station on the G.E.R., and 6 miles N by E of Stowmarket, with a post office under Stowmarket; money order office, Bacton; telegraph office, Finningham. Acreage, 2008; population, 472. Cotton Hall, now a farmhouse, is an ancient mansion surrounded by a moat. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross yearly value, £396 with residence. The church is an ancient building of flint in the Perpendicular and Decorated styles," and there is a Wesleyan chapel.

Administration

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

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 Cotton from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Cotton (St. Andrew))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Cotton 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:

• The Ipswich Journal
• East Suffolk Mercury and Lowestoft Weekly News
• Bury and Norwich Post
• Bury Free Press