Badwell Ash or Little Ashfield, Suffolk

Historical Description

Badwell-Ash or Little Ashfield, a parish in Stow district, Suffolk, 3½ miles N by E of Elmswell station on the G.E.R., and 8 NNW of Stowmarket. It has a post and money order office, of the name of Badwell-Ash, under Bury St Edmunds; telegraph office, Walsham-le-Willows. Acreage, 1858; population, 454. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net value, £110 with residence. The church is a fine edifice of flint in the Early English, Decorated, and Perpendicular styles.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Badwell Ash or Little Ashfield from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Badwell-Ash (St. Mary))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Badwell Ash or Little Ashfield 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