Claydon, Suffolk

Historical Description

Claydon, a village and a parish in Suffolk, on the river Gipping and the G.E.R., 4 miles NNW of Ipswich, with a station on the railway, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Ipswich. Acreage, 975; population of the civil parish, 562; of the ecclesiastical, which includes Akenham, 678. The working of lime and chalk is extensively carried on. The living is a rectory united with the rectory of Akenliam in the diocese of Norwich; joint yearly value, £467. The church is ancient, partly Saxon, and was restored in 1852. There is also a Congregational 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 Claydon from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Claydon 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