South Cove, Suffolk
Historical Description
Cove, South, a village and a parish in Suffolk, near the coast, 4 miles N of Southwold, and 5½ E of Brampton station on the G.E.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Wrentham. Acreage, 1202; population, 137. Some clay-pits are here. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £130 with residence. The church is partly Norman.
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 | South Cove St. Lawrence | |
Hundred | Blything | |
Poor Law union | Blything |
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 South Cove from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Cove, South (St. Lawrence))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of South Cove 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: