Capel St Mary, Suffolk

Historical Description

Capel-St-Mary, a village and a parish in Suffolk. The parish lies on the Hadleigh branch of the G.E.R., 5 miles SE of Hadleigh, and has a station on the railway and a post office under Ipswich, both of the name of Capel; money order office, Bentley; telegraph office, Copdock. Acreage, 1917; population of the civil parish, 605; of the ecclesiastical, 661. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Little Wenham, in the diocese of Norwich; joint gross yearly commutation value, £826 with residence. The church, a building of rubble in the Early Decorated and Perpendicular styles, was restored in 1869. 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.

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 Capel St Mary from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Capel St Mary 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