Waldringfield A Suffolk Village beside the River Deben 'The peace of this place is like a breath of heaven after London,' wrote actor Dirk Bogarde, visiting Waldringfield soon after the end of WW2. He loved 'the damp smells of mud and October mist', the sky 'raked by hundreds of empty masts', the heron 'wading his solitary way across the marshes'.…
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…
Text notes (Glossary) A great deal of research over several years is included in this book. The text notes that follow are intended to answer specific queries that people might feel as they read through, particularly about some of the people mentioned who might have been household names in their time but less well known today. More specific sources and…
Front cover of book Select Bibliography Arnott, WG Suffolk Estuary, Norman Adlard and Co Ltd (Ipswich 1955) Arnott, WG The Place Names of the Deben Valley Parishes, Norman Adlard and Co Ltd (Ipswich 1946) Basham, Winifred Extracts from her Diary 1939-1945, bbc.co.uk (21 July 2004) Bender, Mike A New History of Yachting, Boydell and Brewer (Woodbridge 2017) Benham, Hervey Once…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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.…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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