Saxtead, Suffolk
Historical Description
Saxtead, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, on the river Aide, 2½ miles NW of Framlingham station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Framlingham (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Dennington. Acreage, 1209; population of the civil parish, 352; of the ecclesiastical, with Framlingham, 2877. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The living is a rectory, annexed to Framlingham, in the diocese of Norwich; joint net value, £800 with residence. Patron, Pembroke College, Cambridge. The church is a Gothic building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and belfry. Saxtead Green is a hamlet 1 mile S.
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 | Saxtead All Saints | |
Hundred | Hoxne | |
Poor Law union | Hoxne |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Saxtead from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Saxtead (All Saints))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Saxtead 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: