Stutton, Suffolk

Historical Description

Stutton, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, on the river Stour, 3 miles SSE of Bentley station on the Colchester and Ipswich section of the G.E.R., and 8 S of Ipswich. It has a, post and telegraph office under Ipswich; money order office, Holbrook. Acreage, 2299; population, 542. The manor belongs to the Fison family. Stutton Hall, Cropping Hall, and Crowe Hall are chief residences. Alton Hall is now a farmhouse. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £247 with residence. The church, which was partly rebuilt and enlarged in 1875, is a fine building of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel with aisle, nave, N aisle and N transept, S porch, and a square western embattled tower.

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 Stutton from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stutton (St. Peter))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Stutton 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