Stonham Aspal, Suffolk
Historical Description
Stonham Aspal, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, 5 miles NE of Needbam Market station on the Ipswich and Norwich section of the G.E.R., and 7 E from Stowmarket. It has a post office under Stowmarket; money order and telegraph office, Stonham. Acreage, 2474; population, 720. There is a parish council of nine members and a chairman. The manor, with most of the land, belongs to Lady De Sau-marez. Broughton Hall, an ancient mansion, once the seat of the Wingfields, is now a farmhouse. The living is a rectory; in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £412 with residence. Patron, Lady de Saumarez. The church is an ancient building of flint in the Decorated style, with ornate steeple. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
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 | Stonham Aspal St. Lambert | |
Hundred | Bosmere and Claydon | |
Poor Law union | Bosmere and Claydon |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Stonham Aspal from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stonham, Aspal (St. Lambert))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Stonham Aspal 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: