Willisham, Suffolk
Historical Description
Willisham, a parish in Suffolk, 3 miles N of Needham Market station on the G.E.R., and 7 NW of Ipswich. Post town, Needham Market. Acreage, 940; population of the civil parish, 177; of the ecclesiastical, 144. The living'is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £80. The church is a plain building in the Norman style, and was rebuilt in 1878.
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 | Willisham St. Mary | |
Hundred | Bosmere and Claydon | |
Poor Law union | Bosmere and Claydon |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Willisham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Willisham (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Willisham 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: