Woolpit, Suffolk
Historical Description
Woolpit, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, 1½ mile SW of Elmswell station on the G.E.R;, and 5½ NW by W of Stowmarket. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bury St Edmunds, and a fair on 16 Sept. Acreage, 1881; population, 1018. Bricks and tiles are made. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; gross value, £340 with residence. The church is a structure of flint in the Decorated style, with a handsome porch, tower, and spire. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel, a meeting-room for the Brethren, and a village institute.
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 | Woolpit St. Mary | |
Hundred | Thedwastry | |
Poor Law union | Stow |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Woolpit from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Woolpit (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Woolpit 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: