Chelsworth, Suffolk
Historical Description
Chelsworth or Chellesworth, a village and a parish in Suffolk, on the river Bret, 1½ mile SSE from Bildeston, and 4½ miles SE from Lavenham station on the G.E.R., with a post office under Bildeston (S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Bildeston. Acreage, 877; population, 227. Chelsworth Hall is the chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, £225 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is an ancient building of flint in the Perpendicular style.
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 | Chellesworth All Saints | |
Hundred | Cosford | |
Poor Law union | Cosford |
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 Chelsworth from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Chellesworth, or Chelsworth (All Saints))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Chelsworth 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: