Knettishall, Suffolk

Historical Description

Knettishall, a parish in Suffolk, on the Little Ouse river, at the boundary with Norfolk, near the Peddar Way, 5½ miles S of Harling Road station on the G.E.R., and 6 ESE of Thetford. Post town, East Harling, under Thetford; money order and telegraph office, Hopton. Acreage, 1059; population, 69. The manor belongs to the Champion family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich, consolidated with Riddlesworth and Gasthorpe; net value, £260 with residence. The church is a building of stone in the Early English and Decorated styles.

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 Knettishall from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Knettishall 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