Cockfield, Suffolk

Historical Description

Cockfield, a scattered agricultural parish in Suffolk. A small brook which runs through it is a tributary to the Bret. Cockfield has a station on the G.E.R., 7 miles S from Bury St Edmunds, and 9½ NNE of Sudbury. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.) Acreage, 3626; population, 926. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, £670 with residence. Patron, St John's College, Cambridge. The church, a building of flint in the-Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consists of nave and chancel with aisles and tower, and has a fine monument to the Harveys. There is 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 Cockfield from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Cockfield 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