Depden, Suffolk
Historical Description
Depden, a village and a parish in Suffolk, 5 miles S from Saxham station on the G.E.R., and 7 SW from Bury St Edmunds, with a post office under Bury St Edmunds; money order and telegraph office, Wickhambrook. Acreage, 1596; population, 224. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, £237 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is an ancient building of brick and stone in the Early English style. It has some stained windows, and a brass of Lady Ann Jermyn and two husbands. Bishop Sparrow was a native.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Suffolk | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Depden St. Mary | |
Hundred | Risbridge | |
Poor Law union | Thingoe |
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 Depden from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Depden (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Depden 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: