Ampton, Suffolk

Historical Description

Ampton, a village and a parish in Suffolk, 4½ miles N of Bury St Edmunds, and ½ of a mile E by N of Ingham station on the G.E.R., with a post office under Bury St Edmunds, which is the money order office. There is a telegraph office at Ingham station. Acreage, 736; population, 136. Ampton Hall, a fine country seat of the Paley family, is situated in the midst of an extensive park. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net value, £140. The church is massively built of flints, with chantry and a short square tower. There are several brasses and ancient monuments.

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 Ampton from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Ampton 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