Stansfield, Suffolk

Historical Description

Stansfield, a parish, with Stansfield village and Assington Green hamlet, in Suffolk, 5 miles N by E of Clare station on the Cambridge and Long Melford section of the G.E.R. It has a post office under Clare (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Wickhambrook. Acreage, 2021; population, 410. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net value, £270 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is a building of flint in the Late Perpendicular and Decorated styles, and there is a Congregational chapel.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Stansfield from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stansfield (All Saints))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Stansfield 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