Butley, Suffolk

Historical Description

Butley, a parish in Suffolk, on a sea-creek of its own name, 3 miles W of Orford, and 6 E from Melton station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Wickham-Market; money order and telegraph office, Tunstall. Acreage, 1973 of land and 66 of water, tidal water, and foreshore; population of the civil parish, 337; of the ecclesiastical, with Capel, 520. A priory of Black canons was founded here in 1171 by Ranulph de Glanville, and given at the dissolution to the Duke of Norfolk and William Forth. Ruins and fragments of the abbey occupy nearly 12 acres, and part of the gatehouse has been fitted up as a residence for the vicar. The living is a vicarage, united with the perpetual curacy of Capel, in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £140 with residence. Patron, Lord Rendlesham. The church is a building of stone in the Early English style, and there is a Wesleyan place of worship.

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 Butley from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Butley (St. John the Baptist))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Butley 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