Wickhambrook, Suffolk

Historical Description

Wickhambrook, a village and a parish in Suffolk. The village stands 6 miles N of Clare station on the G.E.R., and has a post, money order, and telegraph office. The parish comprises 4337 acres; population, 1218. Wickhambrook House, Badmondisfield Hall, and Aldersfield Hall are chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net value, £250 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is an ancient edifice of flint in the Early English style, and has been restored. There are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels and almshouses.

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.

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 Wickhambrook from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Wickhambrook (All Saints))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Wickhambrook 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