Wenhaston, Suffolk

Historical Description

Wenhaston, a village and a parish in Suffolk. The village stands 2½ miles SE of Halesworth, and has a station on the Southwold railway. The parish includes Mells hamlet, and comprises 2401 acres; population, 832. There is a parish council consisting of eleven members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £120 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is a handsome building of flint in the Gothic style. A wonderfully well-preserved panel painting of " The Last Judgment" was discovered in 1892 while restoring the chance!. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. Ruins of an ancient chapel are at Mells, a Norman structure which ceased to be used in 1470, Wenlock Edge, a hilly ridge of limestone rock in the S of Salop, extending about 16 miles south-westward from the vicinity of Much Wenlock to the vicinity of Wistanton.

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.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Wenhaston from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Wenhaston 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