Hopton (Thetford), Suffolk

Historical Description

Hopton, a village and a parish near Thetford, Suffolk. The village stands near the Little Ouse river and the boundary with Norfolk, 6 miles S by E from Harling Road station on the G.E.R., and 9 ESE from Thetford, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Thetford. The parish comprises 1397 acres; population, 474. The manor belongs to the Champion family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net value, £223. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is an ancient building of flint and brick in mixed styles, and there are Plymouth Brethren, Primitive Methodist, and Wesleyan chapels.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Hopton (Thetford) from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Hopton (Thetford) 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