Buxhall, Suffolk

Historical Description

Buxhall, a village and a parish in Suffolk, on the rivers Ged and Orwell, 3½ miles WSW of Stowmarket station on the G.E.R., with a post office under Stowmarket, which is the telegraph office; money order office, Great Finborough. Acreage of parish, 2560; population, 424. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross yearly value, £626 with residence. The church is a very ancient edifice of flint in the Norman style. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel and a few small charities.

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 Buxhall from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Buxhall 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