Great Ashfield, Suffolk
Historical Description
Ashfield, Great, a parish in Suffolk, 2½ miles N of Elmswell station on the G.E.R., and 7½ NW of Stowmarket. It has a post-office of the name of Ashfield, under Bury St Edmunds; money order and telegraph office, Elmswell. Acreage, 1548; population, 362. Ashfield Lodge and Ashfield House are chief residences. Ashfield was the birthplace of Lord Chancellor Thurlow, and of his brother, the Bishop of Durham. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; gross yearly value, £60. Patron, Lord Thurlow. The church is a small brick and flint edifice, with a tower. 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.
Ancient County | Suffolk | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Ashfield All Saints | |
Hundred | Blackburn | |
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 Great Ashfield from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ashfield, Great (All Saints))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Great Ashfield 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: