Sproughton, Suffolk
Historical Description
Sproughton, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, on the river Gipping, 3 miles W by N of Ipswich, and 1 mile S from Bramford station on the Ipswich and Norwich section of the G.E.R. It has a post office under Ipswich; money order and telegraph office, Bramford. Acreage, 2438; population, 583. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The Chauntry is a fine country mansion standing on an eminence, and surrounded by beautiful grounds. There are also several other chief residences in the parish. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £302 with residence. Patron, the Marquis of Bristol. The church is an ancient building of flint, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, S porch, and an embattled western tower.
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 | Sproughton All Saints | |
Hundred | Samford |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Sproughton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Sproughton (All Saints))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Sproughton 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: