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alysonNovember 22, 2020
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…
alysonOctober 16, 2020
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…
alysonFebruary 11, 2020
Probably not a Cog as they had one mast.
alysonJanuary 31, 2020
Friendship This probably matches up with the Friendship Book currently under repair with Liz? How are we doing? Shingle?
alysonJanuary 31, 2020
Notes our presence but no detail. Here.
alysonDecember 29, 2019
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…
alysonDecember 29, 2019
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.
alysonDecember 29, 2019
County Scale shows Waldringfeld. Rivers are interesting. From British Library.
alysonDecember 29, 2019
Here at the British Library.
alysonDecember 29, 2019
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…
alysonDecember 27, 2019
The spreadsheet is sortable and can be downloaded. Please use comments to add corrections. add ]
alysonNovember 10, 2019
Walter Tye: There was no more familiar sight on the Deben, fifty to sixty years ago, than that of the old mud barge, the Kingfisher, leaving the quay. Old Jack Stebbings was the skipper and Ben Page, brother of the Newbourn giant, was his mate. Their favourite place for getting the mud was opposite Whitehall Farm where, so said Jack,…
alysonNovember 5, 2019
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alysonOctober 6, 2019
Includes the Deben and some notes on distances. See here.
alysonAugust 18, 2019
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.…
alysonFebruary 26, 2019
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alysonDecember 23, 2018
https://bahs.org.uk/AGHR/ARTICLES/57_102Bailey.pdf
alysonDecember 5, 2018
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.…
alysonMarch 25, 2018
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alysonFebruary 27, 2018
Record office HB8/5/417 a lease between AT Cobbold and John Hill dated 11 Oct 1873 for the land at the quay including malting house, sheds stables and garden in all 2 acres. It was for 14 years at £30 pa. To last until 1887 In 1878 the lease was cancelled by Mason's. In 1878 it would appear there was a…
alysonFebruary 15, 2018
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…
alysonJanuary 29, 2018
This is a much better image of this chart and it is now possible to read the names. Click on the images to enlarge (you can normally zoom with Control key and "+"). Northern part Southern Part Whole chart
alysonJanuary 21, 2017
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…
alysonNovember 24, 2016
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…
alysonNovember 21, 2016
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…
alysonNovember 21, 2016
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…
alysonNovember 19, 2016
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…
alysonJanuary 8, 2016
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