Wattisfield, Suffolk
Historical Description
Wattisfield, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, 3 miles SW of Botesdale, and 6 NW of Finningham station on the G.E.R. It lias a post office under Diss; money order and telegraph office, Walsham-le-Willows. Acreage, 1530; population, 434. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. There are two potteries. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net value, £175 with residence. The church is a small but ancient pebble structure in the Perpendicular style. There are Wesleyan and Congregational chapels.
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 | Wattisfield St. Margaret | |
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 Wattisfield from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wattisfield (St. Margaret))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Wattisfield 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: