Aldringham, Suffolk

Historical Description

Aldringham-cum-Thorpe, a village and a parish in Suffolk. The village stands near the coast and 1 mile S of Leiston station on the G.E.R., and 2½ miles N of Aldborough. It was formerly a market-town, and it still has a pleasure fair on 11 Dec. The parish contains also the hamlet of Thorpe. It has a post office under Saxmundham; money order and telegraph office, Leiston. Acreage, 1692, with 51 of water; population, 577. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich, and includes the curacy of Thorpe; gross yearly value, £84 with residence. The church is transition Norman, and has an octagonal font. There is a Baptist chapel. Aldringham House is a country residence here.

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.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Aldringham from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Aldringham 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