Shadingfield, Suffolk

Historical Description

Shadingfield, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, 2½ miles ENE of Brampton station on the Ipswich and Lowestoft section of the G.E.R., and 5½ NNE of Halesworth. It has a post office under Wangford (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Beccles. Acreage, 1403; population, 159. Shadingfield Hall is a large mansion of brick standing in its own grounds. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £200. The church is an ancient edifice of flint chiefly in the Early English style.

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 Shadingfield from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Shadingfield (St. John the Baptist))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Shadingfield 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