Walpole, Suffolk

Historical Description

Walpole, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, 3 miles SW of Halesworth station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Halesworth; money order and telegraph office, Halesworth. Acreage, 1675; population, 393. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor belongs to Lord Huntingfield. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £80 with residence. Patron, the Church Patronage Society. The church is a structure of flint in the Early Decorated style, and was enlarged and restored in 1878. There are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels.

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 Walpole from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Walpole 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