Otley, Suffolk
Historical Description
Otley, a village and a parish in Suffolk. The village stands 5½ miles NNE of Westerfield station on the East Suffolk section of the G.E.R, and 6 NW by N of Woodbridge, and has a post office under Ipswich; money order office, Grundisburgh; telegraph office, Coddenham. The parish comprises 2168 acres; population, 525. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The manor belongs to the Gurdon-Rebow family. An old entrenchment is in the S. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £416 with residence. Patron, the Marquis of Abergavenny. The church is a fine Gothic building consisting of chancel, nave, S aisle, N and S porches, and a square western embattled tower; it has an ancient carved stone font and a monument to a member of the Gosnold family. There is a Baptist 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 | Otley St. Mary | |
Hundred | Carlford | |
Poor Law union | Woodbridge |
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 Otley from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Otley (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Otley 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: