Ringshall, Suffolk

Historical Description

Ringshall, a village and a parish in Suffolk. The village stands 4½ miles WSW of Needham Market station on the G.E.R., and has a post office under Stowmarket; money order and telegraph office, Combs. The parish comprises 2135 acres; population, 286. The manor belongs to the Adair family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich , net value, £411 with residence. Patron, Pembroke College, Oxford. The church is an ancient Gothic building of flint and rubble, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and & square embattled western tower. 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.

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 Ringshall from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Ringshall 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