Shottisham, Suffolk
Historical Description
Shottisham, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, on the river Deben, 4½ miles SE of Woodbridge station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Woodbridge; money order and telegraph office, Alderton. Acreage, 1134; population, 257. The manor belongs to the Darby family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £180 with residence. The church, which was restored in 1867, is a building of stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, N aisle, and an embattled western tower.
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 | Shottisham St. Margaret | |
Hundred | Wilford | |
Poor Law union | Woodbridge |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Shottisham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Shottisham (St. Margaret))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Shottisham 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: