Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BLYTHBURGH

BLYTHBURGH, a village and a parish in Blything. district, Suffolk. The village stands on the river Blythe, 3½ miles NNE of Darsham r. station, and 4½ ESE of Halesworth. It was formerly a market-town, of some note; but it suffered severely from a fire and other events in the 17th century, and went into decay. A fair is still held at it on 5 April. A priory of Black canons stood here; was given by Henry I. to St. Osyth's Abbey in Essex; and passed, at the dissolution, to Sir Arthur Hopeton; and some trifling remains of its buildings still exist.—The parish includes also the hamlets of Hinton and Bulcamp; and its Post Town is Wenhaston, under Halesworth. Acres, 4,116. Real property, £4,383. Pop., 832. Houses, 128. The manor belongs to Sir J. R. Blois, Bart.; and Henham Hall to the Earl of Stradbroke. A battle between Anna king of East Anglia and Penda king of Mercia, in which the former was slain, was fought at Bulcamp in 654. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £81. Patron, Sir J. R. Blois, Bart. The church is fine early English, very much decayed; and has painted windows, a font, and remains of ancient monuments. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel and the Blything workhouse.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Blythburgh CP/AP       Suffolk AncC
Place: Blythburgh

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