Chelmondiston, Suffolk

Historical Description

Chelmondiston, a village and a parish in Suffolk, on the estuary of the river Orwell, 6 miles SSE of Ipswich, under which it has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage, 1289 of laud and 214 of water; population, 845. Fisheries are carried on. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £210 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style. A new chancel was built in 1891. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels. The local name of the village is Pin Mill.

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 Chelmondiston from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Chelmondiston 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