Sibton, Suffolk

Historical Description

Sibton, a parish in Suffolk, 3 miles Wot Darsham station on the Ipswich and Lowestoft section of the G.E.R., and 5¼N by W of Saxmundham. Post town, Yoxford, under Saxmundham; money order and telegraph office, Peasenhall. Acreage, 2777; population of the civil parish, 475; of the ecclesiastical, 495. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. Sibton Park, a seat of the Brooke family, is a fine mansion standing in a park of about 142 acres. Sibton Abbey House is a chief residence. The manor belongs to the Scrivener family. A Cistercian abbey was founded here in 1149 by William de Cheney, was a splendid edifice, and has left some ruins. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £150 with residence. The church is a fine building of flint in the Early English style. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.

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.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Sibton from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Sibton 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