Dennington, Suffolk

Historical Description

Dennington, a village and a parish in Suffolk. The parish lies at the head of the river Aide, 2½ miles N from Framlingham station on the G.E.R., and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Framlingham (R.S.O.) Acreage, 3267; population, 718. The manor belonged to the Phelips, one of whom was Lord Bardolph, and passed first to the Beaumonts, then to the Rouses, now Earls of Strad-broke. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £800. The church is an edifice of flint and stone in the Early English style, with lofty, squarey pinnacled tower, had anciently two chantries, contains monuments of the Rouses and the Wingfields, and is very good.

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 Dennington from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Dennington 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