Stradishall, Suffolk
Historical Description
Stradishall, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, 5½ miles N by W of Clare station on the Cambridge and Long Melford section of the G.E.R. Post town, Newmarket; money order and telegraph office, Wickhambrook. Acreage, 1404; population, 362. Stradishall Place is the chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; gross value, £300 with residence. The church is of the 15th century, and is a building of flint and stone in the Early English 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 | Stradishall St. Margaret | |
Hundred | Risbridge | |
Poor Law union | Risbridge |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Stradishall from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stradishall (St. Margaret))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Stradishall 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: