Cookley, Suffolk

Historical Description

Cookley, a village and a parish in Suffolk, 3 miles WSW of Halesworth station on the G.E.R. Post town, Halesworth; money order and telegraph office, Halesworth. Acreage, 1727; population, 205. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Huntingfield, in the diocese of Norwich; joint net yearly value, £511. The church, which is a small building of flint in the Early English style, consists of nave and chancel, with a tower, and has a Norman door, Decorated English windows, an oaken roof, good carved benches, an octagonal font, and a brass of 1587. It was restored in 1894.

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 Cookley from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Cookley 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