Elmswell, Suffolk
Historical Description
Elmswell, a parish in Suffolk, 5 miles NW from Stow-market, and 8½ from Bury St Edmunds. It has a station on the G.E.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bury St Edmunds. Acreage, 2089; population, 781. The country house of the abbots of Bury was here. The Rectory and the Grange are the chief residences. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; gross value, £390 with residence. The church has a lofty tower of the 13th century, and the nave is of the 15th century. It commands a fine view, and contains an effigy of Sir R. Gardiner. The village is famed for the purest water for 30 miles round, which has never failed.
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 | Elmswell St. John the Evangelist | |
Hundred | Blackbourn | |
Poor Law union | Stow |
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 Elmswell from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Elmswell (St. John the Evangelist))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Elmswell 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: