Stow Upland, Suffolk

Historical Description

Stow Upland, a parish in Suffolk, suburban to Stowmarket, and containing Stowmarket railway station. It has a post office under Stowmarket; money order and telegraph office, Stowmarket. Acreage, 2886; population, 1240. Two ancient moated halls are now farmhouses. The parish many years ago was united to that of Stowmarket. Trinity chapelry was constituted in 1844, and the living of it is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £91 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Stowmarket. The church was built in 1843, and is a building of white brick in the Early English style. 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.

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 Stow Upland from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stow-Upland (St. Mary))

Land and Property

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

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