Gisleham, Suffolk
Historical Description
Gisleham, a parish in Suffolk, near the coast, 2½ miles S from Carlton Colville station on the G.E.R., and 4½ SW by S of Lowestoft. Post town, Lowestoft; money order and telegraph office, Kessingland. Acreage, 1341; population, 287. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross yearly value, £312 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is ancient but very good, has a round tower, surmounted by a hexagonal steeple, and contains an octagonal Later English font, and remains of a screen.
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 | Gisleham Holy Trinity | |
Hundred | Mutford and Lothingland |
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 Gisleham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Gisleham (Holy Trinity))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Gisleham 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: