Stowlangtoft, Suffolk

Historical Description

Stowlangtoft, a village and a parish in Suffolk, 2½ miles SE of Ixworth, and 3½ NE of Thurston station on the Bury and Ipswich section of the G.E.R. There is a post and telegraph office under Bury St Edmunds; money order office, Norton. Acreage, 1478; population, 177. The manor, with all the land, belongs to the Wilson family. Stowlang-toft Hall, a fine mansion of white brick in the Italian style, was once the seat of the antiquary Sir S. D'Ewes and of the Rawlinsons, and is now the seat of the Wilson family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net value, £263 with residence. The church is of the 14th century, and is a fine building of flint in the Transition style between Early English and Decorated. It contains some fine oak carvings, two ancient marble monuments, and an alabaster reredos. All the windows are stained.

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 Stowlangtoft from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Stowlangtoft 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