Cretingham, Suffolk

Historical Description

Cretingham, a village and a parish in Suffolk, on the river Deben, 5¼ miles WSW of Framlingham station on the G.E.R. The village, named after Gilbert de Cretingham, a former lord of the manor, has a post office under Wickham-Market; money order and telegraph office, Debenham. Acreage of parish, 1649; population, 298. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £90. Patron, the <½ueen or the Lord Chancellor. The church, of the loth century, is a Gothic building of flint and stone, with an embattled western tower, containing five bells.

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 Cretingham from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Cretingham 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