Hartest, Suffolk

Historical Description

Hartest, a village and a parish in Suffolk. The village stands 4 miles N from Glemsford station on the G.E.R., .and 9 NNW from Sudbury, and has a post and money order office under Bury St Edmunds; telegraph office, Glemsford.

The parish comprises 1986 acres; population of the civil parish, 590; of the ecclesiastical, with Boxted, 789. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Boxted, in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, £510 with residence. Patron, the Crown. The church is an ancient building of flint, in the Perpendicular style, with a tower, restored in 1879. There are an endowed school and some small charities.

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 Hartest from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Hartest 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