Redlingfield, Suffolk

Historical Description

Redlingfield, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, 3 miles SE of Eye station on the G.E.R., and 5½ miles N of Debenham. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Eye. Acreage, 1060; population, 175. The manor belongs to the Adair family. A Benedictine nunnery was founded here in 1120 by Manasses, Earl of Guisnez, and was given at the dissolution to the Bedingfields. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. The church, a building of flint and brick in the Norman style, was the chapel of the ancient nunnery.

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 Redlingfield from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Redlingfield 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