Wrentham, Suffolk

Historical Description

Wrentham, a parish, with a scattered village, in Suffolk, 3 miles NNE of Wangford, and 5 E of Brampton station on the G.E.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Wangford. Acreage, 2334; population, 1018. The manor belongs to the Gooch family. Wrentham Hall stands in the village, and was completed in 1862. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £500 with residence. The church is old and handsome, and has a lofty tower, which was used as a beacon-post during the threatened French invasion. There are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels, a lecture-hall and reading-room of 1858, and a training home for servants.

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 Wrentham from the following:

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

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Wrentham 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