Ramsholt, Suffolk

Historical Description

Ramsholt, a parish and scattered hamlet in Suffolk, on the river Deben, 7 miles SSE of Melton station on the G.E.R. Post, money order, and telegraph office, Alderton. Acreage, 1804; population, 157. The manor belongs to Lord Rendlesham. The living is a perpetual curacy, held with Bawdsey, in the diocese of Norwich. The church, a small and unpretending building of stone, old style, has an ancient oval tower attached, of Roman origin.

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 Ramsholt from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Ramsholt (All Saints))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Ramsholt 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