Lound, Suffolk
Historical Description
Lound, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, near the coast, 2½ miles NNE of Somerleyton station on the G.E.R., and 4½ NNW of Lowestoft. It has a post office under Lowestoft; money order office, Blundeston; telegraph office, Somerleyton. Acreage, 1263; population, 403. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £315 with residence. The church is an ancient building of flint in the Gothic style; comprises nave, chancel, and porch, with a round tower, and contains sedilia, a piscina, a very richly-carved oak altar, a Later English screen, and a sculptured octagonal font. There is also a Methodist New Connexion 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 | Lound St. John the Baptist | |
Hundred | Mutford and Lothingland |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Lound from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Lound (St. John the Baptist))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Lound 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: