Blundeston, Suffolk
Historical Description
Blundeston, a parish in Suffolk, near the coast, 2½ miles ENE of Somerleyton station on the G.E.R., and 3½ NW by N of Lowestoft, under which it has a post and money order office; telegraph office, Somerleyton. Acreage, 1583; population of the civil parish, 741; of the ecclesiastical, including Flixton, 838. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Flixton, in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £348 with residence. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
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 | Blundeston St. Mary | |
Hundred | Mutford and Lothingland |
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 Blundeston from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Blundeston (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Blundeston 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: