Rumburgh, Suffolk
Historical Description
Rumburgh, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, 4½ miles NW by N of Halesworth station on the East Suffolk branch of the G.E.R. It has a post office under Halesworth; money order and telegraph office, Halesworth. Acreage, 1538; population of the civil parish, 378; of the ecclesiastical, 494. An Augustinian priory, a cell to holme Abbey, was founded in 1065 by Stephen, Earl of Bretagne, was given at the dissolution to Cardinal Wolsey, and has left some remains at a farmhouse. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of South Elmham St Michael, in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £62 with residence. The church is a curious old edifice of flint in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave, and S porch with a low western tower. There are town-lands church property worth about £68 a year. The village contains a Wesleyan chapel built in 1836.
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 | Rumburgh St. Michael | |
Hundred | Blything | |
Poor Law union | Blything |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Rumburgh from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Rumburgh (St. Michael))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Rumburgh 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: