Ash Bocking, Suffolk

Historical Description

Ash-Bocking or Ashbocken, a parish in Suffolk, 5 miles NE of Claydon station on the G.E.R., and 8 N of Ipswich. Post town, Needham-Market; money order and telegraph office, Coddenham. Acreage, 1413; population, 289. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; gross yearly value, £326; patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church has a brass of a Booking of 1585, and is very good.

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 Ash Bocking from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Ash Bocking 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