Sotterley, Suffolk

Historical Description

Sotterley, a village and a parish in Suffolk, 4½ miles E from Brampton station on the Ipswich and Lowestoft section of the G.E.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Wangford. Acreage, 1597; population, 246. Sotterley Hall is a fine country mansion erected about the middle of the 18th century, surrounded by a well-timbered park of 400 acres. The manor with all the land belongs to the Barne family. The living is a rectory, annexed to Willingham, in the diocese of Norfolk. The church, which stands in the park, is an ancient building of flint in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and a lofty square western tower. It contains a fine carved oak screen dividing the nave from the chancel, and some ancient and interesting tombs and monuments.

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 Sotterley from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Sotterley 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