Blyford, Suffolk
Historical Description
Blyford, (formerly Blythford), a village and a parish in Suffolk, on the river Blythe, 3 miles E by S of Halesworth station on the G.E.R. Post town, Halesworth, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage of parish, 874; population, 163; of the ecclesiastical parish, 166. The living is a donative rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £55. The church, which is an ancient building of flint, has two Norman doors and a Perpendicular English tower, but is mainly Early English and Decorated English.
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 | Blythford All Saints | |
Hundred | Blything | |
Poor Law union | Blything |
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 Blyford from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Blythford (All Saints))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Blyford 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: