WALBERSWICK
"WALBERSWICK, a parish in the hundred of Blything, county Suffolk, 1½ mile S. of Southwold, its post town, and 8 miles from Yoxford. The village is situated near the mouth of the river Blythe, which separates it from Southwold. It was formerly a place of greater importance than at present, and had an extensive fishing trade, but was burnt in the years 1583, 1633, and 1683. A large portion of the land is in heath and marsh. The living is a perpetual curacy* in the diocese of Norwich, value £41. The church, dedicated to St. Andrew, was built in the 16th century, but is now a ruin. There are day and Sunday schools. The Independents and Primitive Methodists have each a chapel."
Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson © 2003
Cemeteries
- St Andrew, Church Lane, Church of England
Census
Church History
Descriptions and photographs of churches in the parish may be found in Simon Knott's Suffolk Churches.Church Records
- Churches in Walberswick:
- St Andrew, Church Lane, Church of England
- Chapel, The Green-Ferry Road, Independent
- Chapel, The Street, Primitive Methodist
You can also perform a more selective search for churches in the Walberswick area that are recorded in the GENUKI church database. This will also help identify churches in nearby townships and/or parishes. You also have the option to see the location of the churches marked on a map.
If you keep this page loaded for a very long time and the database is updated since loading it, the church links above may become stale and may display the wrong church. If this happens, reloading this page will correct them.
Description and Travel
You can see pictures of Walberswick which are provided by:Gazetteers
Ask the GENUKI Gazetteer for a calculation of the distance from Walberswick to another place.Historical Geography
- Details of the administrative areas of which Walberswick has been a part can be seen in Vision of Britain, which contains details of historic boundaries, and more about this place.
Maps
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference TM489746 (Lat/Lon: 52.312996, 1.650283), Walberswick which are provided by:- StreetMap
- Open StreetMap
- Bing (was Multimap)
- OldMaps
- Old Maps Online
- Vision of Britain
- English Jurisdictions in 1851
- Magic
- Elgin Road Works
- GeoHack
- All places within the same township/parish shown on a Google map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on a Google map.
- Nearby places shown on a Google map.
- This place shown on a Google map.
- Google Streetview
