North Cove, Suffolk
Historical Description
Cove, North, a village and a parish in Suffolk, adjacent to the river Waveney, 2½ miles ESE of Beccles station on the G.E.R., with a post office under Beccles; money order and telegraph office, Beccles. Acreage, 1242; population, 234. Cove Hall is an ancient edifice, and commands an extensive view. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £102. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is an ancient thatched building of rubble, founded on an old Norman church. It has a remarkably fine S Norman doorway.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of North Cove 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: