Onehouse, Suffolk
Historical Description
Onehouse, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, 2 miles W by N of Stowmarket station on the G.E.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Stowmarket. Acreage, 926; population, 318. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor belongs to the Pettiward family. Onehouse Hall is a chief residence. A moated seat of the Burghershes was on a spot now occupied by a farmhouse. The Stow Workhouse stands on an elevated site in the E, between the village and Stowmarket, and is a building of red brick which was erected in 1778, with capacity for 254 inmates. There is a mineral spring. The living is a rectory, united with that of Harlestone, in the diocese of Norwich; joint gross value, £320 with residence. The church is a plain good building of flint and brick, was originally Norman, consists of nave and chancel with a curious round tower, and contains an ancient unhewn stone font. Davy, the author of " Letters on Literature," was buried here.
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 | One-House St. John the Baptist | |
| Hundred | Stow | |
| Poor Law union | Stow |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Onehouse from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (One-House (St. John the Baptist))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Onehouse 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: