Stanningfield, Suffolk

Historical Description

Stanningfield, a parish in Suffolk, 5½ miles SSE of Bury St Edmunds, and 2 NW from Cockfield station on the Bury and Sudbury section of the G.E.R. It has a post office under Bury St Edmunds; money order and telegraph office, Cockfield. Acreage, 1469; population, 301. The manor, with Coldham Hall, belongs to the Holt-Lomax family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; gross value, £328 with residence. The church is a building of stone and flint in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and a Norman tower. Mrs Inchbald the novelist was a native.

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 Stanningfield from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Stanningfield 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