Rattlesden, Suffolk
Historical Description
Rattlesden, a large village and a parish in Suffolk. The village stands on a branch of the river Gipping, 3½ miles S by W of Elmswell station on the Bury and Ipswich section of the G.E.R., and 4¾ W of Stowmarket, with a post and money order office under Bury St Edmunds; telegraph office, Woolpit, The parish contains also the hamlets of Poystreet Green, Potash, and High Town Green, and comprises 3299 acres, population, 980. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. Clopton Hall is a fine mansion standing on an eminence amidst some beautiful woods and pleasure grounds about half a mile NE of the village. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; gross value, £630 with residence. The church is a fine spacious building of flint in the Perpendicular and Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, nave, N and S aisles, S porch, and an embattled western Early English tower with spire. It has a good stained E window and an ancient font. A new rectory was built in 1892. There is a Baptist chapel.
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 | Rattlesden St. Nicholas | |
Hundred | Thedwastry | |
Poor Law union | Stow |
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 Rattlesden from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Rattlesden (St. Nicholas))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Rattlesden 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: