Stratford St Andrew, Suffolk
Historical Description
Stratford St Andrew, a small village and a parish on the river Aide, in Suffolk, 3¼ miles SW of Saxmundham, and S¼ NE from Marlesford station on the Framlingham branch of the G.E.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Saxmundham. Acreage, 800; population, 202. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £172 with residence. The church, restored in 1870, is an Early English building of cut flint and stone, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and an embattled western tower.
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 | Stratford St. Andrew | |
Hundred | Plomesgate | |
Poor Law union | Plomesgate |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Stratford St Andrew from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stratford (St. Andrew))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Stratford St Andrew 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: