Drinkstone, Suffolk

Historical Description

Drinkstone, a parish in Suffolk, 2½ miles SSW of Elms-well station on the G.E.R., and 6 WNW of Stowmarket. It lias a post office under Bury-St-Edmunds; money order and telegraph office, Woolpit. Acreage, 2196; population, 396. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; gross yearly value, £485 with residence. The church is ancient, and lias a tower. Drinkstone Park, the seat of the Powell family, is a fine mansion situated in a beautiful park of 250 acres. Drinkstone House is a chief residence.

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 Drinkstone from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Drinkstone (All Saints))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Drinkstone 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