Blaxhall, Suffolk
Historical Description
Blaxhall, a village and a parish in Suffolk, on the river Aide, 2 miles NE of Wickham-Market Junction station on the G.E.R., and 5 SSW of Saxmundham, with a post office under Wickham-Market; money order and telegraph office, Tunstall. Acreage, 2018; population, 567. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £456 with residence. The church, a building of brick in the Early English style, was restored in 1863. The manor belongs to the Earl of Guilford.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Suffolk | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Blaxhall St. Peter | |
Hundred | Plomesgate | |
Poor Law union | Plomesgate |
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 Blaxhall from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Blaxhall (St. Peter))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Blaxhall 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: