Theberton, Suffolk

Historical Description

Theberton, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, 2½ miles N by W of Leiston station on the G.E.R., and 4 ENE of Saxmundham. It has a post office under Saxmundham; money order and telegraph office, Leiston. Acreage, 2001; population, 541. Theberton House and Theberton Hall are chief residences. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £220 with residence. Patron, the Crown. The church is partly Norman and mainly Later English. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.

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 Theberton from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Theberton 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