Wingfield, Suffolk

Historical Description

Wingfield, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, 4½ miles S by W of Harleston station on the G.E.R. It has a post and money order office under Harleston; telegraph office, Stradbroke. Acreage, 2495; population, 466. The manors belong to the baronet family of Adair and Lady Bateman. Wingfield Castle consists of remains of an ancient seat of the De la Poles, comprises moat, drawbridge, battlemented walls, turrets, and towers, and has been partly converted into a farmhouse. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £220 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Norwich. The church is a very fine ancient structure, was made collegiate in 1362 by the widow and the brother of Sir John Wingfield, and has been extensively 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 Wingfield from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Wingfield 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