Benacre or Binacre, Suffolk

Historical Description

Benacre or Binacre, a village and a parish in Suffolk, on the coast, 6½ miles S by W from Lowestoft station on the G.E.R., and 6½ N from Southwold. Post town, Wangford; money order and telegraph office, Wrentham. Acreage, 2560; population of the civil parish, 204; of the ecclesiastical, which includes Covehithe and Easton Bavents, 384. Benacre Hall is a fine country seat situated in a park of 230 acres. A lake of about 100 acres, called Benacre Broad, abounding in pike and other fish, lies about ½ a mile from the sea. A stone vessel, containing about 900 Roman silver coins, some of them of the Emperor Vespasian, was found at the making of a new turnpike road in 1786. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Easton-Bavents and the vicarage of Covehithe, formerly called North Hales, in the diocese of Norwich; joint net yearly value, £200 with residence. The church, dedicated to St Michael, was rebuilt in 1769. It is in good preservation, and consists of chancel, nave, and a south aisle. Easton-Bavents, now a parish consisting of a few cottages only, with a population of 18, is said to have been formerly a large market-town, and to have lost its prosperity through the encroachments of the sea.

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 Benacre or Binacre from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Benacre or Binacre 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