Mutford, Suffolk

Historical Description

Mutford, a village and a parish in Suffolk. The village stands 4½ miles SE by E of Beccles, and 5¼ SW of Lowestoft, and is in close proximity to Carlton Colville station on the G.E.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Beccles. Acreage of the civil parish, 1597; population, 420; of the ecclesiastical, with Barnby, 733. There is a parish council for Mutford consisting of seven members, and for Barnby of seven members. The manor belongs to the Reeve Trustees. The living is a vicarage, united with the rectory of Barnby, in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £252. Patron, Caius College, Cambridge. The church is an ancient building of flint in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles; comprises nave, S aisle, and a S porch built in 1891; has a ruinous Galilee porch at the W end and a round W tower; and contains a good chancel arch, remains of a screen, a canopied water-drain, an octagonal font of the time of Richard II., and a Norman arch over the grave of Hilderburga de Bosco. 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.

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 Mutford from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Mutford 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