Lindsey, Suffolk
Historical Description
Lindsey, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, on an affluent of the river Brett, 4½ miles NW by W of Hadleigh station, on the G.E.R. Post town, Kersey, under Ipswich; money order and telegraph office, Boxford. Acreage, 1230; population, 253. The manor belongs to the Wood family. Lindsey Hall is now a farmhouse. Ravens Hall, formerly the seat of the Hobart family, is also a farmhouse. The manufacture of linsey-woolsey took its rise in this parish. Traces of an ancient camp and ruins of an ancient chapel are at Chapel Farm. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net value, £197 with residence. Patron, King's College, Cambridge. The church is an ancient building of rubble and flint in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisles, and south porch. It formerly had a tower, but this fell in 1836, and has not been rebuilt. Rose Green is a hamlet about half a mile south-west of the village.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Kent | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Lindsey St. Peter | |
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 Lindsey from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Lindsey (St. Peter))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Lindsey 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: