Great Bealings, Suffolk
Historical Description
Bealings, Great, a village and a parish in Suffolk, on a branch of the Deben river, and on the G E.R., near Bealings 117station, 2½ miles W by S of Woodbridge, with a post office under Woodbridge, which is the money order office; telegraph office, Little Dealings. Acreage, 1036; population, 337. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £200 with residence. Patron, Lord Henniker. The church is a building of flint and stone in the Decorated style.
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 | Bealings St. Mary | |
Hundred | Carlford | |
Poor Law union | Woodbridge |
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 Great Bealings from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Bealings, Great (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Great Bealings 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: