Hawstead, Suffolk

Historical Description

Hawstead, a village and a parish in Suffolk. The village stands 4 miles S by W from Bury St Edmunds, and 3 W from Whelnetham station on the G.E.E., and was known at Domesday as Halstead. It has a post office under Bury St Edmunds; money order and telegraph office, Hoi-ringer; The parish, with Hardwick extra-parochial tract, comprises 2304 acres; population of the civil parish, 325; of the ecclesiastical, 344. The manor belonged to Bury Abbey; passed to the Fitz-Eustaces, the Cloptons, and the Drurys; and belongs now to the Cullum family. Hawstead Place, the old manor-house, was visited in the time of the Drurys by Queen Elizabeth, but afterwards became a farmhouse. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, £350 with residence. The church is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style of the 15th century, with a tower, and contains monuments of the Fitz-Eustaces, the Drurys, and the Cullums, and three brasses. There are some well-endowed almshouses for six aged persons, and a common of about 24 acres. Bishop Hall was rector.

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 Hawstead from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Hawstead 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