Sizewell, Suffolk
Historical Description
Sizewell, a hamlet in Leiston parish, Suffolk, on the coast at Sizewell Gap, 6 miles E of Saxmundham. It contains some recent marine villa residences, and has a coastguard station and a fishery. Sizewell Bank is a shoal lying off the hamlet, measures 6 miles by three quarters of a mile, and has from 4 to 9 fathoms water.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Suffolk | |
Civil parish | Leiston | |
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 Sizewell from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Sizewell 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: