Shipmeadow, Suffolk

Historical Description

Shipmeadow, a parish, with a village, in the vale of the Waveney, Suffolk, on the Norfolk border, 3 miles W by S of Beccles station on the G.E.R., and 3 E from Bungay. It has a post office under Beccles; money order and telegraph office, Beccles. Acreage, 823; population, 223. The manor belongs to the Suckling family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £170 with residence. The church is a building of flint and stone in the Decorated style of architecture. The Wangford Workhouse here has accommodation for about 350 inmates, and has a chapel which was erected in 1866 from designs by the late G. E. Street, R.A., and a cemetery.

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 Shipmeadow from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Shipmeadow (St. Bartholomew))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Shipmeadow 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