Mickfield, Suffolk
Historical Description
Mickfield, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, 3 miles WSW of Debenham, and 8 NE from Stowmarket station on the Ipswich and Norwich section of the G.E.R. It has a post office under Stonham; money order and telegraph office, Stonham. Acreage, 1274; population, 224. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £320 with residence. The church is an ancient Gothic building of flint and stone, and has a tower faced with flints.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Suffolk | |
| Ecclesiastical parish | Mickfield St. Andrew | |
| Hundred | Bosmere and Claydon | |
| Poor Law union | Bosmere and Claydon |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Marriages at Mickfield, 1558 to 1837 are available online as part of the Suffolk Parish and Probate Records.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Mickfield from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Mickfield (St. Andrew))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Mickfield 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: