Spexhall, Suffolk

Historical Description

Spexhall, a village and a parish in Suffolk, 2 miles NNW of Halesworth station on the East Suffolk branch of the G.E.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Halesworth. Acreage, 1838; population, 199. The manor belongs to Lady Bateman. The manor house is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £190 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is an ancient edifice of flint in the Norman and Early English styles of architecture, and consists of chancel, nave, and S porch, with wooden bell-turret. It formerly had a round tower, but this is now only an ivy-clad ruin.

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 Spexhall from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Spexhall 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