Little Whelnetham, Suffolk

Historical Description

Whelnetham, Little, a parish in Suffolk, with a station on the G.E.R., 2½ miles SE of Bury St Edmunds. Post town, Bury St Edmunds. Acreage, 599; population, 174. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net value, £100 with residence. Patron, the Marquis of Bristol. The church is 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.

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Little Whelnetham from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

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