Great Thurlow, Suffolk

Historical Description

Thurlow, Great, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, 3½ miles N by E of Haverhill station on the G.E.R. It has a fair on 11 Oct., and it gives name and title to the descendants of Lord Chancellor Thurlow. Post town, Newmarket. Acreage, 2055; population, 383. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; gross value, £370 with residence. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style, was restored in 1879. There is a Congregational chapel.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Great Thurlow from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Thurlow, Great (All Saints))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Great Thurlow 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