Worlingworth, Suffolk
Historical Description
Worlingworth, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, 5 miles NW by N of Framlingham station on the G.E.R. It has a post and money order office under Framlingham; telegraph office, Stradbroke. Acreage, 2473; population of the civil parish, 574; of the ecclesiastical, with Southolt, 726. There is a parish council consisting of nine members. The manor belongs to Lord Henniker. The living is a rectory, united with Sontholt, in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £750 with residence. Patron, Lord Henniker. The church contains a beautiful Gothic font cover which once adorned the abbey church of Bury St Edmunds.
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 | Worlingworth St. Mary | |
Hundred | Hoxne | |
Poor Law union | Hoxne |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Worlingworth from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Worlingworth (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Worlingworth 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: