Sapiston, Suffolk
Historical Description
Sapiston, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, on an affluent of the Little Ouse river, 3 miles NNW of Ixworth, 5 W of Ingham station, and 5 NW from Barnham station, both on the Bury and Thetford section of the G.E.R. Post town, Bury St Edmunds; money order and telegraph office, Ixworth. Acreage, 1282; population, 233. The property belongs to the Duke of Grafton, who is also lord of the manor. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net value, £112. Patron, the Duke of Grafton. The church is a building of flint and rubble in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and a square western embattled tower. The nave has a roof of thatch, and the church contains a fine Norman doorway, a Norman font, a piscina, and a beautifully carved oak reredos.
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 | Sapiston St. Andrew | |
Hundred | Blackbourn | |
Poor Law union | Thetford |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Sapiston from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Sapiston (St. Andrew))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Sapiston 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: