Kesgrave, Suffolk

Historical Description

Kesgrave, a village and a parish in Suffolk, Similes E by N of Ipswich and 1½ mile SW from Bealings station on the 'G.E.R. Post town and money order office, Ipswich; telegraph office, Bealings. Acreage, 867; population of the civil parish, 90; of the ecclesiastical, with Brightwell and Foxhall, 363. The living is a perpetual curacy, titular vicarage, united with Foxhall and Brightwell, in the diocese of Norwich; united gross value, n£92 with residence. The church is a building of rubble in the Early English style, with an embattled western tower of brick. There is a priest's chamber under S side of tower which is interesting.

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 Kesgrave from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Kesgrave 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