Walsham le Willows, Suffolk
Historical Description
Walsham-le-Willows, a village and a parish in Suffolk. The village stands 5 miles W by N of Finningham station on the G.E.R., and 8½ NNW of Stowmarket, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bury St Edmunds, and a public hall and reading-room. The parish comprises 2817 acres; population, 1033. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net value, £180 with residence. The church is a large structure of flint in the Perpendicular style, and has been well restored. There are Baptist and Congregational chapels, and a children's home.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Suffolk | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Walsham-Le-Willows St. Mary | |
Hundred | Blackbourn | |
Poor Law union | Stow |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Walsham le Willows from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Walsham-Le-Willows (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Walsham le Willows 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: