Swilland, Suffolk
Historical Description
Swilland, a village and a parish in Suffolk, 5 miles NE from Claydon station on the Ipswich and Norwich section of the G.E.R., and 6 N by E of Ipswich. Post town, Ipswich; money order office, Grundisburgh; telegraph office, Claydon. Acreage, 956; population, 214. The manor belongs to the Hatten family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £163 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is a small edifice of rubble.
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 | Swilland St. Mary | |
Hundred | Bosmere and Claydon | |
Poor Law union | Bosmere and Claydon |
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 Swilland from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Swilland (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Swilland 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: