Fressingfield, Suffolk
Historical Description
Fressingfield, a large village and a parish in Suffolk, 4 miles S by E of Harleston station on the G.E.R., and about 10 W by N of Halesworth, with a post, money order, and telegraph office under Harleston. Acreage of the civil parish,, 4618; population, 1086; of the ecclesiastical, 1250. The living is a vicarage, united with the rectory of Withersdale, in the diocese of Norwich; joint yearly value, —£466 with residence. Patron, Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The church is a fine building of flint and stone, chiefly in the Decorated style, has a tower and a porch, and contains a brass of 1489, and a tomb of Archbishop Sancroft. The oak benches in the church are regarded as specimens of the best Late Mediaeval wood-carving, especially one with the emblems of the Passion. There are Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels. Archbishop Sancroft was a native and also died here. Samuel Vince, professor of astronomy at Cambridge from 1796 to 1822, was born here. Caterpole Green, Chepenhall Green, Hussey Green, andUfford Green are adjacent hamlets.
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 | Fressingfield St. Peter and St. Paul | |
Hundred | Hoxne | |
Poor Law union | Hoxne |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Marriages at Fressingfield, 1554 to 1837 are available online as part of the Suffolk Parish and Probate Records.
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 Fressingfield from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Fressingfield (St. Peter and St. Paul))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Fressingfield 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: