Lackford, Suffolk

Historical Description

Lackford, a village and a parish in Suffolk, near the river Lark, 3½ miles N of Saxham station on the G.E.R., and 5½ NW of Bury St Edmunds, with a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bury St Edmunds. Acreage, 2338; population, 193. The lord of the manor is sole landowner. There are rabbit warrens. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net value, £216 with residence. The church is an ancient structure of stone and flint, chiefly in the Norman style. It contains an octagonal font, with enriched panels of foliage of the time of Edward I.

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 Lackford from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Lackford 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