Walton, Suffolk
Historical Description
Walton, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, half a mile from Trimley station on the G.E.R., and 4 miles from Harwich. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Ipswich, and a ferry across the Orwell to Harwich. Acreage, 2021; population, 1923. Orwell House and Coldham are chief residences. Walton Castle, which formerly stood on a sea-cliff, dated from the time of the Romans, but was undermined and destroyed by the sea. Roman coins, urns, rings, and other relics have been found. A Benedictine priory, a cell to Rochester Abbey, was founded here by R. Bigod, and went after the dissolution to successively Cardinal Wolsey, the Duke of Norfolk, and T. Leckford. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £135 with residence. The church is a structure of stone in the Early English style. An ecclesiastical district, with a church consecrated in 1895 and dedicated to St John the Baptist, was formed out of portions of Felixstow and Walton. The church stands in Walton parish. There are Baptist and Methodist chapels. The Foresters' Hall was erected in 1886.
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 | Walton St. Mary | |
Hundred | Colneis | |
Poor Law union | Woodbridge |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Walton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Walton (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Walton 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: