Freston, Suffolk

Historical Description

Freston, a village and a parish in Suffolk, on the river Orwell, 3 miles SE from Bentley station on the G.E.R., and S1- S of Ipswich, with a post office under Ipswich; money order and telegraph office, Holbrook. Acreage, 1460; population, 265. A strong square tower of the Latymers is here, 12 feet long, 10 wide, and 6 stories high. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £290 with residence. The church, a small building in the Early English and Decorated styles, was restored in 1875. Preston Lodge is a chief residence.

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 Freston from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Freston 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