Hepworth, Suffolk

Historical Description

Hepworth, a village and a parish in Suffolk. The village stands 3½ miles SW from the Little Ouse river, at the-boundary with Norfolk, 5 NE from Ixworth, and 9 SE from Thetford station on the G.E.R., and has a post office under Diss; money order and telegraph office, Walsham-le-WillowsL The parish comprises 1693 acres; population, 439. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, £305. Patron, King's College, Cambridge. The church is an ancient building of rubble, with a thatched roof, in the Early English style, and has an embattled tower. There is a Primitive Methodist chapeL

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Hepworth from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hepworth (St. Peter))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Hepworth 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:

• The Ipswich Journal
• East Suffolk Mercury and Lowestoft Weekly News
• Bury and Norwich Post
• Bury Free Press