Nettlestead, Suffolk

Historical Description

Nettlestead, a parish in Suffolk, 2½ miles W of Claydon station on the Ipswich and Norwich section of the G.E.R., and 5½ NW of Ipswich. Post town, Ipswich; money order and telegraph office, Needham Market Acreage, 991; population, 62. The manor belonged to the Earls of Richmond, passed to Peter de Savoy, the Tiptofts, the Despencers, and the Wentworths, and gave to the last the title of Baron. It belongs now to the Pretyman family. Nettlestead Hall was the manor house, retains an ancient gateway bearing the arms of the Wentworths, and is now a farmhouse. The living is a rectory, with Little Blakenbam annexed, in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £162. The church is a fine Gothic building of stone, and contains a handsome monument of Mr S. Sayer, of the time of Charles I. Boyse, one of the translators of the Bible, was a native.

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.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Nettlestead from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Nettlestead 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