Thorpe by Ixworth, Suffolk

Historical Description

Thorpe-by-Ixworth, a parish in Suffolk, 1½ mile NNW of Ixworth, and 5 N of Thurston station on the G.E.R. Post town, Ixworth, under Bury St Edmunds. Acreage, 1065; population, 131. A Black priory was founded here in 1110. The living is a donative in the diocese of Ely; net value, £50. The church is an ancient structure of rubble in the Early English style.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Thorpe by Ixworth from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

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