Little Cornard, Suffolk
Historical Description
Cornard, Little, a village and a parish in Suffolk, on the river Stour, adjacent to the G.E.R., 2½ miles SE of Sudbury. Post town, Sudbury, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1748; population, 329. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, £352 with residence. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Perpendicular style. Combrook. See MANCHESTER.
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 | Little Cornard All Saints | |
Hundred | Babergh | |
Poor Law union | Sudbury |
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 Little Cornard from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Cornard, Little (All Saints))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Little Cornard 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: