Felsham, Suffolk
Historical Description
Felsham, a village and a parish in Suffolk. The village stands 3 miles NE from Cockfield station on the G.E.R., and 7 W by S of Stowmarket, and has a post and money order office under Bury/ St Edmunds; telegraph office. Cock-field. The parish comprises 16 54 acres; population, 374. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; gross value, £374 with residence. The church is an ancient building of flint and stone in the Early English style; it was restored in 1878.
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 | Felsham St. Peter | |
Hundred | Thedwastry | |
Poor Law union | Stow |
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 Felsham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Felsham (St. Peter))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Felsham 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: