Great Blakenham, Suffolk

Historical Description

Blakenham, Great, a parish in Suffolk, on the river Gipping, ½ a mile NNW of Claydon station on the G.E.R., and 8¼ SSE of Needham-Market. It has a post office under Ipswich; money order and telegraph office, Claydon. Acreage, 875; population, 276. The manor belonged to the Abbey of Bee in Normandy, and passed in the time of Henry VI. to Eton College. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £135 with residence. The church, an ancient building of flint and rubble, was restored in 1876. There is a Baptist chapel. 184

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 Great Blakenham from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Blakenham, Great, or Blakenham Super Aquas (St. Mary))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Great Blakenham 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