Crowfield, Suffolk
Historical Description
Crowfield, a parish in Suffolk, 5 miles ENE of Needham-Market town and station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Needham-Market; money order and telegraph office, Coddenham. Acreage, 1731; population, 293. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Coddenham, in the diocese of Norwich; joint value, £587 with residence. The church is an interesting building of flint and wood in the Perpendicular style. There is a small Baptist chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Suffolk | |
Civil parish | Codden Ham | |
Hundred | Bosmere and Claydon | |
Poor Law union | Bosmere and Claydon |
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 Crowfield from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Crowfield)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Crowfield 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: