Wickham Skeith, Suffolk
Historical Description
Wickham Skeith, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, 2 miles E of Finningham station on the G.E.R., and 4½ SW by S of Eye, Post town, Stonham. Acreage, 1782; population, 439. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. Wickham Hall was rebuilt in 1846, and is now the parsonage. Many Saxon coins have been found. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £115 with residence. The church is an ancient building of flint in the Perpendicular style. There are a chapel of ease and a Wesleyan chapel.
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 | Wickham-Skeith St. Andrew | |
Hundred | Hartismere | |
Poor Law union | Hartismere |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Wickham Skeith from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wickham-Skeith (St. Andrew))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Wickham Skeith 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: