Henley, Suffolk
Historical Description
Henley, a village and a parish in Suffolk. The village is 2½ miles ENE of Claydon station on the G.E.R., and about 4 N of Ipswich. It has a post office under Ipswich; money order and telegraph office, Claydon. The parish comprises 1235 acres; population, 220. Near its NE boundary rises the Fyme, an affluent of the river Deben. The Dean and Chapter of Norwich are lords of the manor of Henley Sextons, and also patrons of the living, which is a vicarage I'B the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £190. The church is an ancient building in the Early English and Perpendicular styles. Henley Hall, where the Theobald family formerly resided, is the chief residence in the parish.
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 | Henley St. Peter | |
Hundred | Bosmere and Claydon | |
Poor Law union | Bosmere and Claydon |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Henley from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Henley (St. Peter))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Henley 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: