Thorpe Morieux, Suffolk

Historical Description

Thorpe Morieux, a parish in Suffolk, 4 miles NNE of Lavenham station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Hitcham; money order office, Felsham; telegraph office, Cockfield. Acreage, 2497; population, 385. There is a parish council of seven members and a chairman. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net value, £357 with residence. The church is an edifice of stone in the Perpendicular style, with an embattled tower, and has been restored.

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.

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 Thorpe Morieux from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Thorpe-Morieux (St. Mary))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Thorpe Morieux 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