Hintlesham, Suffolk

Historical Description

Hintlesham, a village and a parish in Suffolk. The village stands near a branch of the river Orwell, 2½ miles NE by N from Raydon station on the G.E.R., and 4½ ENE from Hadleigh, and has a post office under Ipswich; money order office, Ipswich; telegraph office, Copdock. The parish comprises 2804 acres; population of the civil parish, 567; of the ecclesiastical, 575. Hintlesham Hall belonged to the Timperleys, and passed to the Lloyds and the Anstrnthers, to whom it now belongs. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross yearly value, £442 with residence. The church is old but good, with a tower, and contains a brass of 1400, and a monument to the Misses Lloyd. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel and an endowed school.

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 Hintlesham from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Hintlesham 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