Moulton, Suffolk

Historical Description

Moulton, a pleasant village and a parish in Suffolk. The village stands on the river Kennett, a tributary of the Lark, near Icknield Street, 1½ mile NE of the boundary with 'Cambridgeshire, 2 miles S by W of Kennet station on the Bury St Edmunds and Cambridge branch of the G.E.R., and 3¼ E by N of Newmarket; was once a market-town, and has a post and money order office under Newmarket; telegraph office, Kentford. The parish comprises 3169 acres; population, 509. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. Moulton Paddocks was at one time the seat of Lord Gerard. The manor belongs to the McCalmont family, the owners of the Cheveley estate, which they purchased from the Duke of Rutland. The living is a rectory and a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; gross value, £633 with residence. Patron, Christ's College, Cambridge. The church, a fine building of flint and stone in the Perpendicular style, was restored in 1851 at a cost of more than £2000, and consists of nave, aisles, and chancel; with porch and tower. There are a Wesleyan chapel and some valuable charities.

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 Moulton from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Moulton 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