Trimley St Martin and Trimley St Mary, Suffolk

Historical Description

Trimley St Martin and Trimley St Mary, two parishes in Suffolk, 8½ and 8½ miles SE of Ipswich, with a station on the Felixstowe branch of the G.E.R., and a post and money order office under Ipswich; telegraph office, Walton. Acreage of Trimley St Martin, 2538; population of the civil parish, 631; of the ecclesiastical, 597. Acreage of Trimley St Mary, 1535; population of the civil parish, 465; of the ecclesiastical, 499. The livings are rectories in the diocese of Norwich; net value of St Martin, £370 with residence; gross value of St Mary, £380 with residence. The churches stand in one churchyard, are both rubble buildings in the Early English style, and have been restored. 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 Trimley St Martin and Trimley St Mary from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Trimley St Martin and Trimley St Mary 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