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Posts which appear as footnotes in the book.

Book Final VersionNotesPublished Book

Book Errata & Corrections

The following corrections have been made for the second edition: 115: Corrected concrete cottage plan picture 2020-06-27 Concrete Cottages 1870s revision 135: Corrected caption of (probably "St David" => "Adlam") "St Patrick on the left and Adlam on the right about 1929" 171: Corrected Isaac Stollery's date of death ("1889" => "1880") 195: Corrected ("Sullivan Close" => "Sullivan Place") 207: Corrected…
alyson
October 16, 2020
BeachDebenFloodsMapsNotes

Tidal level at Woodbridge

Tide gauge (sometimes a bit on the drag) Highest level was 3.35 (2013?) Ray Whyard tells  in 1953 the flooding reached up Cliff Road to the bend by the entrance to the Maybush car park. This is about 4.0m AOD (hard to be exact without measuring - lost OS BM on wall) which makes a height of tide of about…
alyson
February 11, 2020
MapsNotes

Charts of our River

Merged with Maps of our locality For the benefit of future local historians and to feed those afflicted with curiosity, the relevant maps and charts we have found and used are listed here. For our book, we have regarded maps as dealing with the land and charts with the water.  They are reproduced here only as small images to give…
alyson
December 29, 2019
MapsNotes

1611 Speed map of Suffolk

County scale, shows Waldringfielde, Brightwell river and Fynn river. No river to Shottisham. 1635 Mercator Atlas of the World: No local but includes the Deben and some notes on distances.  
alyson
December 29, 2019
MapsNotes

Maps of our locality

Maps and Charts of our Locality and River for comment Merged with Charts I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe. Robert Louis Stevenson For the benefit of future local historians and to feed those afflicted with curiosity, the relevant maps and charts we have found and used are…
alyson
December 27, 2019
MapsNotesRoads & Paths

Parish Boundary

The official 2019 footpath map has a confusing Parish Boundary with a more southerly northern boundary and bulge at the Heath. Both maps courtesy of Suffolk County Council.     This is due to a legal technicality with the way footpaths are recorded on a 1954 map with a different boundary.  So, the footpaths are correct but the boundary isn't.…
alyson
February 26, 2019
NotesReference

Measures and money

Readers without white hair may not be familiar with some of the currency and measurements used. Where we've remembered conversions are given but this guide may be of use. Lengths Distance was measured in inches (25mm), twelve of these made a foot (300mm), three feet made a yard (0.9m) and 1,760 yards a mile (1.58km). Shown as 1", 1 in.…
alyson
March 25, 2018
DocumentsMapsNotes

Ordance Survey and other map resources

For Geological and others see David Rumsey collection 1881 25 inch 1882 Geological Map of area in David Rumsey Collection - can be zoomed. 1902 6 inch 1902 25 inch 1907 1 inch Woodbridge 1919 1 inch 1925 25 inch 1941 1:25000 German High Command 1946 1 inch 1955 1:25000 The National Library of Scotland have a large collection of…
alyson
January 29, 2018
ArchaeologyDebenDocumentsFishingLocation/FeatureMiddle AgesNotesPeriodsPlacesSurvey

Fish Traps or Kiddles

See ] From: ENGLISH HERITAGE-Suffolk Coastal NMP Project SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL  A number of fishtraps, of a type known as ‘kiddles’ (Strachan 1995) are situated off Stonner Point in the inter-tidal zone of the River Deben.  The fish traps consist of groups of posts arranged in lines to create roughly v-shaped and possibly interconnected structures which point out into the…
alyson
November 24, 2016
Anglo SaxonChurchDocumentsInstitutionsLord of ManorNotesPeoplePeriods

1035 and 1044 gift of land Leofgifu

Update: 01FEB20 Another, slightly later, document we found is an example of this confusion. An academic paper ((Williams, A. (n.d.) Earls, ceorls, thegns and lords.))  quoted: 'between 1035 and 1044, the East Anglian lady Leofgifu gave Godric her reeve the land at Waldringfield, Suffolk, which she had previously loaned to him.' For some time we took this to be correct…
alyson
November 21, 2016
DocumentsNotesVillage Name

Notes on Domesday entries

National Archives notes Open Domesday entry Little Domesday Book –Suffolk I Land of the King Belonging to the Realm, which Roger Bigod keeps in Suffolk. HUNDRED OF CARLFORD VI Robert Malet P1210 column 2 halfway down “In Lesser Waldringfield 1 sokeman of Eadric 22 acres of land, 1 bordar and 1 plough, worth 2s.” Also held land in Kesgrave and…
alyson
November 21, 2016
Court RollsDocumentsMiddle AgesNotesPeriods

Information from Court Rolls

We have Court Rolls dating back to 1356 for the Manor of Waldringfield Hilton and from 1561 for the Manor of Waldringfield Rivershall. These refer to Manors rather than to Waldringfield or Lesser  Waldringfield as in the Domesday book. They clearly overlapped the current parish but may have had diffent boundaries. As we saw in the Domesday Book records holding…
alyson
November 19, 2016
BeachFieldsGraveyardLocation/FeatureNotes

Hugh Pearl – RIP

It has been said that Hugh Pearl was returning from a secret mission on April 1st 1939 when his seaplane crashed in the Deben leaving this scar in the mud. The simple headstone half way along Garden Field was the only reminder of his heroism.   Others, more sensibly, say it's obviously to do with drainage as we were informed by the company Hugh…
alyson
January 8, 2016