Debenham, Suffolk
Historical Description
Debenham, a small town and a parish in Suffolk. The town stands on the side of a hill, near the source of the river Deben, 7 miles W from Framlingham station on the G.E.R., and 10 NNE of Needham Market, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Stonhain, and formerly had a weekly market on Friday, and a fair on 24 June. The parish comprises 3322 acres; population, 1219. The manor belonged to Butley Priory, and passed to the Framlinghams, the Gandys, the Pitts, the Bridges, and others, and is now the property of Lord Henniker. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; value, £142 with residence. Patron, Lord Henniker. The church is a building of stone and flint, chiefly in the Perpendicular and Early English styles; and there are a Congregational chapel, a bank, a mechanics' institute, an endowed school, and charities worth about £150 a year.
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 | Debenham St. Mary | |
Hundred | Thredling | |
Poor Law union | Bosmere and Claydon |
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 Debenham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Debenham (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Debenham 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: