Wetherden, Suffolk

Historical Description

Wetherden, a parish, with a scattered village, in Suffolk, 1½ mile E by S of Elmswell station on the G.E.R., and 4 miles NW of Stowmarket. It has a post office under Stowmarket; money order and telegraph office, Haughley. Acreage, 1856; population, 452. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The manor belongs to Lord Thurlow. Wetherden Hall was the seat of the Sulyards, and is now a farmhouse. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £360 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is a fine old building of flint in the Early English style, and was restored in 1872. There are an endowed school, a charity for six widows, and a small Baptist chapel.

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.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Wetherden from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Wetherden 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