Wyverstone, Suffolk
Historical Description
Wyverstone, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, 2½ miles SW of Finningham station on the G.E.R., and 6 N of Stowmarket. Post town, Bacton, under Stowmarket. Acreage, 1558; population, 245. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £224 with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor. The church is an ancient edifice of flint in the Early English style, with an embattled tower.
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 | Wyverstone St. George | |
Hundred | Hartismere | |
Poor Law union | Hartismere |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Wyverstone from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wyverstone (St. George))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Wyverstone 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: