Page needs re-ordering. Known as Maybush Lane in the late 19C. On the East side. Village ] Built in 1875 by Rev. Thomas Henry Waller and eventually sold to the local Education Authority in 1904. School House together with ] a pair of Pretyman Cottages. The schoolmaster Mr Tompkins lived there. ] No.L Paddock Barn No.2 Riffhams , Ryelands ,…
alysonJuly 12, 2012
Northside - Hillcrest, Crossways - Originally a pair of Pretyman Cottages, now one house & much extended from original building. Low Farm and Camp Site.
alysonJuly 12, 2012
White Hall Cottage (now Plum Tree Cottage) An old cottage rebuilt in 1973 as a retirement cottage for Canon Trevor Waller and his wife. Unfortunately Mrs. Waller died shortly after they moved in, but Canon Trevor ] remained there until his death in 1996. Now a holiday home. White Hall - Part of the Waller inheritance, through the marriage of…
alysonJuly 12, 2012
Church Meadows - No.1, No.3, RIVER COTTAGE, MEADOW VIEW, GALLEONS on the site of a Bungalow (picture somewhere). Penny Hedge. So called as the owner found a penny in the hedge. ] Bungalows 1 2 3 , Seven Moons A modern bungalow built around an old army hut, originally named Hawthorns. The four ] maiden aunts lived there after the…
alysonJuly 12, 2012
School Road 1910 - Rural East Suffolk In Old Photographs - Edward Chilvers East side - Prior to the opening of the new school in 1875 School Road was a little used lane with only one property, Miss Mary Pretymans cottage, on the east side of the lane. The coprolite carts no doubt used the lane to reach…
alysonJuly 12, 2012
Previously called The Street, and was the main route into the village and down to the river. It avoided the ‘hill' in ‘School Road' and was an easier route for the horses. In the 19C there was a ] .Before the early years of the 20th century the lanes would have little better than cart tracks, such as we see…
alysonJuly 12, 2012
There was an idea in the village that not only would we like a distinctive village sign but we would like it to commemorate the Queen's Silver Jubilee in 1977. Audrie Fitzjohn, who lived at 3 Sunnyhill offered a design, the result of which you see today. Audrie had been sailing in Waldringfield in the Dragonfly class for many years with…
alysonApril 10, 2012
Names and inscriptions to be added. Photographs of the headstones are here.
alysonDecember 7, 2011
There was a survey done in 2011 of the baptist Chapel Headstones before we had access to the 1933 survey. Both are now available as transcriptions from here. The photographs are available on a separate website Gravestone Photos for free (see link below) and also now available on Ancestry. The 2011 survey was done after the Chapel had been extended…
alysonDecember 7, 2011
Waldringfield Parish Council Footpaths EG98/B1/1 A meeting was held in the sailing clubhouse on Aug 12th 1932 at 8.00pm called by Mr. A.W. Stollery & attended by about 15 invited parishioners to consider matters in ref. to the right of way on the shore. After a brief explanation by Mr. Stollery that the reason for the meeting was that strong…
alysonDecember 5, 2011
West side - Cross Cottage - Originally a pair of ]s, part of the ]’s of Nacton, Foxhall estate. These cottages are recognisable as they had no front doors. Not as claimed by my father in law because Capt. Pretyman didn’t want the wives gossiping on the front door steps, but to make them look bigger. Whatever the reason a…
alysonMarch 7, 2011
The plots on Sullivan Place were intended to be for young couples who were good at DIY, and most of the properties there were in fact built by their first owners.
alysonMarch 7, 2011
A continuation of ] and starts at the bend to the South. East side - ] ]. , ] , ] , ] , No. 1. The ] One of the oldest properties in the village, from old photographs it would appear to have been two cottages. A shop was started there in the early 1880's by Mrs. ] who…
alysonMarch 7, 2011
Thanks to Foxearth & District History Society for this April 23rd 1768 Last Sunday was brought to the custom house at Woodbridge-80 half ankers of Geneva which was taken by the Bawdsey ferry officials out of a ditch near Waldringfield.
alysonApril 26, 2010
Sorry, you have no rights to view unless you are a member. If you live in (or have a connection with) the village, please ask for access.
alysonApril 26, 2009
This diagram attempts to explain how the Chain, Rod, Poles, Perch, Acre, Rood, Carucate, Bovate fit together. See also Roman linear and area measures
alysonJanuary 28, 2008
Roads and Path names Field names survey-off-rivershall-1656 1656 Survey individuals bits of land to fit together WALDRINGFIELD RIVERSHALL HB8/1/937 An Exact Particular of the several copyhold lands belonging to the Mannor of Rivershall – Waldringfield in the County of Suffolk as they are not abutted bring part of the possessions of THOMAS ESSINGTON of Brightwell in the said County Esquire,…
alysonJanuary 28, 2008
Little Domesday Book - XXXVIIII Lands of Ranulf, Brother of Ilger, Hundred of Carlford In Waldringfield Beorhtmaer, a Free man, held TRE: a carucate of land as a manor and 1 bordar. Then 2 ploughs, now 1: mill. Then 1 horse. Then 100 sheep, now 27. Then it was worth 20s. now 10s. It is 6 furlongs long and 3…
alysonJanuary 7, 2008
Minor changes to text below. "High marks in the competition of curious local mispronunciations of place names may fairly be claimed for the case of Waldringfield, near Ipswich. If you do in Suffolk as the Suffolkers do, you must call it "Wunuerf'l,"which is also their pronunciation of "wonderful," a favourite Suffolk word". - Pronunciation, according to the Ipswich Evening…
alysonDecember 9, 2007
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