Westerfield, Suffolk
Historical Description
Westerfield, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, with a station on the East Suffolk branch of the G.E.R., 2½ miles NNE of Ipswich. It has a post office under Ipswich; money order and telegraph office, Ipswich. Acreage, 1096; population, 367. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £190 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Norwich. The church is a building of flint and rubble, and contains some handsome stained glass windows.
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 | Westerfield St. Mary Magdalene | |
Hundred | Bosmere and Claydon | |
Poor Law union | Ipswich |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Westerfield from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Westerfield (St. Mary Magdalene))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Westerfield 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: