Sudbourne, Suffolk
Historical Description
Sudbourne, a village and a parish in Suffolk, 4½ miles SW of Aldborough station on the G.E.R. There is a post office under Wickham Market; money order and telegraph office, Orford. Acreage, 4906; population of the civil parish, 568; of the ecclesiastical with Orford, 1622. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. Sudbourne Hall, a mansion of brick standing in a park of about 300 acres, is the seat of the lord of the manor, who is the principal landowner. The living is a rectory, united with Orford, in the diocese of Norwich; joint net value, £363 with residence at Orford. Patron, the Crown. The church is a small but ancient edifice of flint and stone in the Perpendicular style. It was well restored in 1879, when some interesting discoveries were made, including one of upwards of 2600 coins belonging to the reigns of John, Henry II. and III., and William the Lion, king of Scotland
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 | Sudborne All Saints | |
Hundred | Plomesgate | |
Poor Law union | Plomesgate |
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 Sudbourne from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Sudborne (All Saints))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Sudbourne 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: