Woolverstone, Suffolk

Historical Description

Woolverstone, a parish in Suffolk, on the river Orwell, 4 miles from Ipswich station on the G.E.R. Post town, Ipswich. Acreage, 960; population, 309. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor, with Woolverstone Hall, belongs to the Berners family. An obelisk, 96 feet high, was erected in 1793 to the memory of W. Berners, Esq. The living is a rectory, annexed to Erwarton. The church, situated in the centre of Woolverstone Park, is in the Decorated style, and was enlarged in 1889, the original church being made the S aisle.

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 Woolverstone from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Woolverstone 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