Worlingworth, Suffolk

Historical Description

Worlingworth, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, 5 miles NW by N of Framlingham station on the G.E.R. It has a post and money order office under Framlingham; telegraph office, Stradbroke. Acreage, 2473; population of the civil parish, 574; of the ecclesiastical, with Southolt, 726. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The manor belongs to Lord Henniker. The living is a rectory, united with Sontholt, in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £750 with residence. Patron, Lord Henniker. The church contains a beautiful Gothic font cover which once adorned the abbey church of Bury St Edmunds.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Worlingworth from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Worlingworth 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