Rushbrooke, Suffolk

Historical Description

Rushbrooke, a parish in Suffolk, on the river Lark, 3½ miles SE of Bury St Edmunds railway station. Post town, Bury St Edmunds. Acreage, 1063; population, 136. The manor belonged to Bury Abbey, passed to the Jermyns, and with Rushbrooke Hall belongs now to the Rushbrooke family. The Hall is a splendid moated mansion, forms three sides of a quadrangle, is partly of the time of King John, partly of that of Elizabeth, contains a drawing-room in which Elizabeth held courts in 1578, includes an old chapel now used as a billiard-room, and stands in an extensive and well-wooded park. The parish is a meet for the Suffolk hounds. The living is a rectory, annexed to Bradfield, in the diocese of Ely. The church has a richly decorated nave, a S aisle, a chancel, and a tower, and contains monuments of the Jermyns and the Rushbrookes.

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 Rushbrooke from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Rushbrooke 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