Snape, Suffolk

Historical Description

Snape, a village and a parish in Suffolk. The village stands near the river Aide, 3½ miles S by E of Saxmundham station on the G.E.R., bears the name of Snape Street, and has a post and telegraph office under Wickham Market; money order office, Faruham. The parish contains also the hamlet of Snape Bridge, which has a horse fair on 11 Aug., and a station (though for goods only) on the G. E. R. Acreage, 1981; population, 546. A Benedictine priory, a. cell to Colchester, was founded here in 1099 by W. Martell; was given by Henry VII. to Butley Abbey; went at the Dissolution to the Duke of Norfolk, and is now a farmhouse. There are two barrows, in which rings, coins, and other memorials of antiquity have been found. Brick earth is found in the parish, and there are sand pits. The living is a vicarage annexed to Friston in the diocese of Norwich; joint net value, £192 with residence. The church is a building of flint and rubble in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and an embattled western tower of Saxon or Norman architecture. 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 Snape from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Snape (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 Snape 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