Withersfield, Suffolk
Historical Description
Withersfield, a parish in Suffolk, 2 miles NW of Haverhill station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Newmarket; money order and telegraph office, Haverhill. Acreage, 2498; population, 634. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net value, £340 with residence. The church was partly rebuilt and enlarged in 1868.
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 | Withersfield St. Mary | |
Hundred | Risbridge | |
Poor Law union | Risbridge |
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 Withersfield from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Withersfield (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Withersfield 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: