Kettlebaston, Suffolk
Historical Description
Kettlebaston, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, on the river Brett, 4 miles E from Lavenham station on the G.E.R., and 7 NNW from Hadleigh. Acreage, 1041; population of the civil parish, 120; of the ecclesiastical, 133. Post town, Ipswich; money order and telegraph office, Bildeston. The manor belonged to the De la Poles, passed to the Walde-graves, the Lemans, and others, and belongs now to the Beechcroft family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, a£214 with residence. The church is good, has a tower, and contains an old brass and an old monument of Lady Jeremy.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Suffolk | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Kettlebaston St. Mary | |
Hundred | Cosford | |
Poor Law union | Cosford |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Kettlebaston from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Kettlebaston (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Kettlebaston 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: