Newton near Sudbury, Suffolk

Historical Description

Newton-near-Sudbury, a village and a parish in Suffolk, S½ miles E of Sudbury station on the Stour Valley section of the G.E.R. There is a post office under Sudbury; money order and telegraph office, Sudbury. Acreage, 2198; population of the civil parish, 421; of the ecclesiastical, 427. The manor of Newton Hall belongs to Earl Howe. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; gross value, £467 with residence. Patron, St Peter's College, Cambridge. The church is an ancient building of flint chiefly in the Decorated style; retains a beautiful Saxon arch which was formerly a doorway; and comprises nave and chancel, with S porch and a tower. It contains some ancient monuments. 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.

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Newton near Sudbury from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Newton-Near-Sudbury (All Saints))

Land and Property

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

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