Tannington, Suffolk
Historical Description
Tannington, a village and a parish in Suffolk, 5 miles NW from Framlingham station on the G.E.R. Post town, Wickham Market; money order and telegraph office, Framlingham. Acreage, 1638; population of the civil parish, 167; of the ecclesiastical with Brundish, 544. The manor belongs to the Earl of Stradbroke. The living is a vicarage, united with Brundish, in the diocese of Norwich; joint net value, £150 with residence, in the gift of the Bishop of Norwich. The church is a fine building of flint.
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 | Tannington St. Ethelbert | |
Hundred | Hoxne | |
Poor Law union | Hoxne |
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 Tannington from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Tannington (St. Ethelbert))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Tannington 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: