Leavenheath, Suffolk
Historical Description
Leavenheath, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Suffolk. The village stands 2½ miles NNW of Nayland, and 4¼ NE of Bures station on the Colchester and Bury section, of the G.E.R. It has a post office under Colchester; money order and telegraph office, Nayland. The ecclesiastical parish was formed in 1868 from the civil parishes of Assington, Nayland, Polstead, Stoke-by-Nayland, and Wissington or Wiston. Population, 361. The living is a vicarage in thfr diocese of Ely; net yearly value, £83 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Stoke-by-Nayland. The church, erected in 1835 and enlarged in 1882, is a building of brick and stone in the Early English style. There is also a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Leavenheath 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: