Stanstead, Suffolk
Historical Description
Stanstead, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, 6½ miles NNW of Sudbury, and 3¼ NW from Melford Junction station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Glemsford (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Glemsford. Acreage, 1195; population, 368. There is a parish council consisting of eight members. The manor belongs to the Bence family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net value, £234 with residence. The church, which was restored in 1878 at a cost of about £1000, is an ancient edifice of flint in the Perpendicular style.
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 | Stanstead St. James | |
Hundred | Babergh | |
Poor Law union | Sudbury |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Stanstead from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stanstead (St. James))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Stanstead 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: