Fornham All Saints, Suffolk

Historical Description

Fornham All Saints (formerly Fomham Major), a village and a parish in Suffolk, on the river Lark, 2 miles NNW of Bury St Edmunds station on the G.E.R., with a post office under Bury St Edmunds; money order and telegraph office, Bury St Edmunds. Acreage of the civil parish, 1705; population, 395; of the ecclesiastical, with Westley, 553. A battle between Edward, son of King Alfred, and Ethelwold, his cousin, was fought in the neighbourhood. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Westley, in the diocese of Ely; joint net yearly value, £390 with residence. Patron, Clare College, Cambridge. The church has a brass of 1599, and is very good.

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 Fornham All Saints from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Fornham All Saints 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