Kedington, Suffolk

Historical Description

Kedington or Ketton, a village and a parish in Suffolk, but part of the latter in Essex. The village stands on the river Stour, 2½ miles ENE from Haverhill station on the G.E.R., and has a post office under Haverhill; money order and telegraph, Haverhill. The parish contains also Brockley Green and the Risbridge Workhouse. Acreage, 2406, of which 773 are in Essex; population in Suffolk, 747; in Essex, 109. The manor was known at Domesday as Keditune, belonged to the Baynards, and passed to the Earls of Clare and the Bamardistons. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net value, £500 with residence. The church is neat and good, and contains many ancient and handsome monuments. The workhouse is a large building of red brick, with accommodation for about 650 inmates.

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 Kedington from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Kedington, or Ketton (St. Peter and St. Paul))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Kedington 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