Westley, Suffolk
Historical Description
Westley, a parish in Suffolk, 2 miles W by S of Bury St Edmunds station on the G.E.R. Post town, Bury St Edmunds. Acreage, 1240; population of the civil parish, 158; of the ecclesiastical, with Fornham All Saints, 553. The living is a rectory, annexed to Fornham. The church was built in 1836, and is a building of stone in the debased Gothic style.
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 | Westley St. Thomas à Becket | |
Hundred | Thingoe | |
Poor Law union | Thingoe |
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 Westley from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Westley (St. Thomas à Becket))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Westley 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: