Flempton, Suffolk
Historical Description
Flempton, a village and a parish in Suffolk, on the river Lark, 3 miles N of Saxham station on the G.E.R., and 4 NW of Bury St Edmunds, with a post office under Bury St Edmunds; money order office, Bury St Edmunds; telegraph office, 'Lackford. Acreage, 947; population of the civil parish, 187; of the ecclesiastical, with Hengrave, 376. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of 'Hengrave, in the diocese of Ely; tithe commuted at £445 with residence. The church is of flint and stone in the Perpendicular style, and was thoroughly restored in 1885. There is a curious and uncommon double piscina in the sacrarium, also a very quaint old Jacobean pulpit in perfect order.
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 | Flempton St. Catherine | |
Hundred | Thingoe | |
Poor Law union | Thingoe |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Flempton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Flempton (St. Catherine))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Flempton 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: