Wherstead, Suffolk

Historical Description

Wherstead, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, on the river Orwell, 2½ miles S of Ipswich station on the G.E.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office at Wherstead Road (T.S.O.), under Ipswich. Acreage, 2142; population, 315. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor, with Wherstead Park, belongs to the Dashwoods. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net value, j£150 with residence. The church is a building of flint in the Perpendicular style, with two Norman doorways, and has been well restored.

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 Wherstead from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Wherstead 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