Battisford, Suffolk

Historical Description

Battisford, a village and a parish in Suffolk, 3 miles W by S of Needham Market station on the G.E.R., and 3½ S from Stowmarket. Post town, Needham Market, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1581; population, 399. An hospital of knights of St John of Jerusalem was erected here in the reign of Henry II., and given at the dissolution to Sir Richard Gresham. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £249. The church is a Gothic building of stone, with a brick tower.

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 Battisford from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Battisford 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