Thorndon, Suffolk

Historical Description

Thorndon, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, 3 miles S of Eye station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Eye; money order and telegraph office. Eye. Acreage, 2723; population, 618. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £480 with residence. The church is a handsome building of flint in the Perpendicular style, with an embattled tower, and has been well restored. A reformatory school for boys was established in 1856.

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 Thorndon from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Thorndon (All Saints))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Thorndon 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