Erwarton, Suffolk

Historical Description

Erwarton or Arwarton, a village and a parish in Suffolk, on the river Stour, 2½ miles NNW from Dovercourt station on the G.E.R., and 3½ NNW of Harwich, both on the opposite side of the Stour. Post town and money order office, Shotley under Ipswich; telegraph office, Chalmondiston. Acreage, 1306 of land and 410 of water and foreshore; population of the civil parish, 183; of the ecclesiastical, with Woolverstone, 492. The manor belonged in the 14th century to the Bacons, passed to the Drurys and the Parkers, and belongs now to the Berners family. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Woolverstone, in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £493 with residence. The church is a building of flint in the Perpendicular style.

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 Erwarton from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Erwarton 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