Walberswick, Suffolk
Historical Description
Walberswick, a parish, with an ancient village, in Suffolk, on the coast, with a station on the Halesworth and Southwold railway, 109 miles from London. It lias a post and money order office under Southwold; telegraph office, Southwold. Acreage, 1985; population, 270. The village was a fishing-town till the Reformation, had thirteen barques and twenty-two fishing-boats in 1451, and was burnt in 1583,1633, and 1683. The living is a vicarage with Blythborough annexed, in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £130 with residence. The church is of the 15th century, was originally 124 feet long, and is now but a portion of the old fabric. There are Primitive Methodist and Congregational chapels.
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 | Walberswick St. Andrew | |
Hundred | Blything | |
Poor Law union | Blything |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Walberswick from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Walberswick (St. Andrew))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Walberswick 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: