Falkenham, Suffolk

Historical Description

Falkenham, a village and a parish in Suffolk, on the W side of the estuary of the Deben, 3½ miles SE from Orwell station on the G.E.R., and 8 S from Woodbridge. Post town, Ipswich; money order office, Trinity St Martin; telegraph office, Walton. Acreage, 1739 of land and 165 of tidal water; population, 258. A portion of the soil is marsh land. Coprolites are found here. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £331 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is a building of flint and brick in the Decorated style, and there is a Congregational chapel.

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 Falkenham from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Falkenham 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