Great Wenham, Suffolk

Historical Description

Wenham, Great, a parish in Suffolk, 2 miles from Raydon station, 3 WSW of Capel station on the G.E.R., 4½ SE of Hadleigh, and 7½ of Ipswich. It has a post office under Stratford St Mary; money order office, Raydon; telegraph office, East Bergholt. Acreage, 1133; population, 228. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £220 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Norwich. The church is a plain building of rubble in the Early English style.

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 Wenham from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wenham, Great, or Wenham-Combust (St. John))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Great Wenham 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