Letheringham, Suffolk

Historical Description

Letheringham, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, on the river Deben, 2¼ miles NW of Wickham Market, and 4½ from Wickham Market station on the G.E.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Wickham Market. Area, 1153 acres; population of the civil parish, 207; of the ecclesiastical, with Hoo, 389. The manor, and all the land with the exception of a few cottages, belongs to the Duke of Hamilton. A priory of Black canons, a cell to St Peter's Monastery in Ipswich, was founded by Sir Edwin Bovile, and was given at the dissolution, first to Sir Anthony Wingfield, afterwards to his third daughter Elizabeth Naunton. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Hoo, in the diocese of Norwich; joint net value, £107 with residence, in the gift of the Church Patronage Society. The church is an ancient building of flint in the Decorated style, has a western tower with pinnacles very beautifully built of flint, belonged to the priory, and contains some decayed monuments of the Bovilles, the Wingfields, and the Nauntons.

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 Letheringham from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Letheringham 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