Linstead Parva, Suffolk

Historical Description

Linstead Parva, a parish, with a small village, in Suffolk, 3½ miles W by N of Halesworth town and station on the G.E.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Halesworth. Acreage, 567; population of the civil parish, 125; of the ecclesiastical, with Linstead Magna, 216. The manor and most of the land belong to Lord Huntingfield. The living is a vicarage, united with that of Linstead Magna, in the diocese of Norwich; joint gross value, £143, in the gift of the Church Patronage Society. The church is a small but ancient building of flint in the Early English style.

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 Linstead Parva from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Linstead Parva, or Lower Linstead (St. Margaret))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Linstead Parva 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