Westhall, Suffolk
Historical Description
Westhall, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, 3 miles NE of Halesworth station on the G.E.R. Post town, Wangford. Acreage, 2318; population, 391. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. Westhall Hall belonged to the Bohuns, and is now the property of the Earl of Stradbroke. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £150 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Norwich. The church is a building of flint in the Gothic and Norman styles. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel
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 | Westhall 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 Westhall from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Westhall (St. Andrew))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Westhall 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: