Livermere Magna, Suffolk

Historical Description

Livermere Magna, a village and a parish in Suffolk. The village stands 5½ miles W by N of Ixworth, 6 NNE of Bury St Edmunds, and 2½ E from Ingham station on the G.E.R., and has a post office under Bury St Edmunds; money order office, Barton; telegraph office, Ingham railway station. The parish comprises 1558 acres; population of the civil parish, 224; of the ecclesiastical, with Livermere Parva, 369. The manor, with Livermere Hall, belonged to the Duke of Grafton; passed to the Cokes, the Actons, and Admiral Sir G. N. Broke Middleton; and belongs now to Lord de Sanmarez. The hall is a handsome edifice, was built by the Duke of Grafton, and stands in a fine park over 400 acres in extent, well stocked with deer, which extends into Livermere Parva, and is traversed by a fine stream. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Livermere Parva, in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, £380 with residence. The church is a small thatched building of flint and rubble in the Later English and Decorated styles, with a tower.

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 Livermere Magna from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Livermere Magna 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