Shelley, Suffolk

Historical Description

Shelley, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, 2½ miles S of Hadleigh station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Hadleigh (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Hadleigh. Acreage, 916; population of the civil parish, 91; of the ecclesiastical, 112. The river Brett flows through the village. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £4:6. The church is an ancient building of rubble in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, with N chapel, nave, S aisle, and tower on N side. It contains some ancient memorials.

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 Shelley from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Shelley 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