WATTISFIELD
"WATTISFIELD, a parish in the hundred of Blackbourn, county Suffolk, 3 miles S.W. of Botesdale, its post town, and 6 N.E. of Ixworth. The village is situated on the road from Bury St. Edmund's to Norwich. This parish contains some excellent potter's earth. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely, value £370. The church is dedicated to St. Margaret. The Independents and Wesleyans have each a chapel. Henry Youngman, Esq., is lord of the manor."
Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson © 2003
Cemeteries
- Cemetery, The Grundle-Miller's Way, Cemetery
- St Margaret, The Street, Church of England
- URC, Chapel Road, Congregational
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Church History
Descriptions and photographs of churches in the parish may be found in Simon Knott's Suffolk Churches.Church Records
- Churches in Wattisfield:
- St Margaret, The Street, Church of England
- URC, Chapel Road, Congregational
- Chapel, Bobby Hill, Plymouth Brethren
- Chapel, Bobby Hill, Wesleyan Methodist
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