Tattingstone, Suffolk
Historical Description
Tattingstone, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, 1 mile ESE of Bentley station on the G.E.R., and 5½ miles S by W of Ipswich. It has a post office under Ipswich; money order office, Bentley; telegraph office, Stutton, and it contains Samford workhouse. Acreage, 1671; population, 515. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The manor, with Tattingstone Place, was purchased in 1893 by Mr Roger Kerrison. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £260 with residence. The church is a building of rubble in the Decorated style, and there is a Wesleyan chapel.
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 | Tattingstone St. Mary | |
Hundred | Samford |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Tattingstone from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Tattingstone (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Tattingstone 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: