Raydon, Suffolk

Historical Description

Raydon, a village and a parish in Suffolk. The village stands 1¼ mile S of the Hadleigh branch of the G.E.R., and 3 miles SE of Hadleigh, and has a railway station and a post and money order office under Hadleigh (R.S.O.); telegraph office, Hadleigh. Acreage of parish, 2374; population, 541. The parish council has nine members. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £403 with residence. The church is a large, ancient, and interesting building of rubble in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, N porch, and a western bell-turret.

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 Raydon from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Raydon 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