Harleston, Suffolk
Historical Description
Harleston, a parish in Suffolk, 2½ miles NW of Stow-market station on the G.E.R Post town, Stowmarket;. money order and telegraph office, Haughley. Acreage, 612; population, 78. The manor belongs to the Terry family.. The living is a rectory, united to the rectory of Onehouse, in the diocese of Norwich; gross yearly value, £163. Th& church is a small building of flint with a thatched roof.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Suffolk | |
Hundred | Stow | |
Poor Law union | Stow |
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 Harleston from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Harleston)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Harleston 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: