Henstead, Suffolk

Historical Description

Henstead, a village and a parish in Suffolk. The village stands 4 miles from the coast, 6 from Oulton Broad station on the G.E.R., and 6½ SW from Lowestoft. The parish contains also the hamlet of Hulver, which has a post office under Wangford (R.S.O.); money order office, Beccles; telegraph office, Wrentham. Acreage, 1959; population, 488. The manor belongs to the Sheriffe family. Henstead Hall is a large mansion with extensive and beautiful gardens. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £222, in the gift of the Sheriffe family. The church, which is a building of flint in the Perpendicular style, hay a Norman doorway and an embattled tower. There is a Wesleyan chapel at Hulver Street, and there are also a few 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 Henstead from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Henstead (St. Mary))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Henstead 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