Hitcham, Suffolk

Historical Description

Hitcham, a parish in Suffolk, near the river Bret, 1½ mile NNW from Bildestone, and 6 miles E by N from Lavenham station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Bildestone (S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Bildestone.. Acreage, 4308; population of the civil parish, 874; of the ecclesiastical, 856. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net value, £680. Patron, the Crown. The church is a large and handsome building of flint in the Later English style, and has a carved roof and tower. Bnrkitt the commentator was a native.

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 Hitcham from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Hitcham 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