Weybread, Suffolk
Historical Description
Weybread, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, 2 miles S by W of Harleston station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Harleston; money order and telegraph office, Harleston. Acreage, 2501; population, 638. There are four manors. Weybread Hall and Instead Manor House are ancient mansions converted into farmhouses. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £85 with residence. The church is an edifice of flint in the Perpendicular style, with round Norman tower, and has been restored.
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 | Weybread St. Andrew | |
| Hundred | Hoxne | |
| Poor Law union | Hoxne |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Marriages at Weybread, 1687 to 1837 are available online as part of the Suffolk Parish and Probate Records.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Weybread from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Weybread (St. Andrew))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Weybread 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: