Rickinghall Superior, Suffolk

Historical Description

Bickinghall Superior, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, adjoining Botesdale and forming part of the town, and 5½ milea W from Mellis Junction station on the Ipswich and Norwich section of the G.E.R. It has a post office under Digs; money order and telegraph office, Botesdale. Acreage, 1414; population, 498. There is a parish council consisting of seven members and a chairman. The manor belongs to the Wilson family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £325 with residence. The church is a fine building of stone and flint in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, and an embattled pinnacled western tower. There are three small estates, the rent of which is devoted to ecclesiastical and charitable purposes.

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 Rickinghall Superior from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Rickinghall-Superior (St. Mary))

Land and Property

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

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