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Suffolk Poor Law Unions

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Suffolk Poor Law Unions

There were eighteen Poor Law Unions in Suffolk.

 

Blything

Blything Union at The Workhouse site.

Article on this workhouse at Bulcamp at Suffolk Churches.

Bosmere & Claydon

Bosmere & Claydon Union at The Workhouse site.

Bury St Edmunds

Bury St Emunds Union at The Workhouse site.

Cosford

Cosford Union at The Workhouse site.

Hartismere

Hartismere Union at The Workhouse site.

Hoxne

Hoxne Union at The Workhouse site.

Ipswich

Ipswich Union at The Workhouse site.

Mildenhall

Mildenhall Union at The Workhouse site.

Mutford & Lothingland

Mutford & Lothingland Union at The Workhouse site.

Newmarket

Newmarket Union at The Workhouse site.

Plomesgate

"PLOMESGATE, a district and a hundred in the S E of Suffolk. The district comprehends the sub-district of Earl-Soham, containing the parishes of Earl-Soham, Kenton, Brandeston, Kettleburgh, Cretingham, Monewden, and Hoo; the sub-district of Framlingham, containing the parishes of Framlingham, Parham, Easton, and Letheringham; the sub-district of Wickham-Market, containing the parishes of Wickham-Market, Hacheston, Marlesford, Campsey-Ash, Blaxhall, Rendlesham, and Eyke; the sub-district of Orford, containing the parishes of Orford, Sudbourne, Iken, Tunstall, Wantisden, Chillesford, and Butley, and the extra-parochial tracts of Havergate-Island, and Gedgrave; the sub-district of Aldeburgh, containing the parishes of Aldeburgh, Hazlewood, Friston, Snape, Sternfield, Benhall, Farnham, and Stratford, St. Andrew; and the sub-district of Saxmundham, containing the parishes of Saxmundham, Rendham, Swefling, Bruisyard, Cransford, Great Glemham, and Little Glemham. ...

... The workhouse is in Wickham-Market; and, at the census of 1861, had 133 inmates. The hundred comprehends only the Aldeburgh and Saxmundham sub-districts, six parishes of Orford sub-district, and one in each of two other sub-districts." 

(From John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, (1870-72)).

Plomesgate Union at The Workhouse site.

Plomesgate Union at Vision of Britain.

Plomesgate Union at Historic England.

Plomesgate Hundred at GENUKI.

"Between a Rock and a Hard Place : The Poor Law Commission's Migration Scheme, 1835-37" - University Thesis, University of Central Lancashire.

Risbridge

Risbridge Union at The Workhouse site.

Samford

Samford Union at The Workhouse site.

Stow

Stow Union at The Workhouse site.

Sudbury

Sudbury Union at The Workhouse site.

Thingoe

Thingoe Union at The Workhouse site.

Wangford

Wangford Union at The Workhouse site.

Woodbridge

Woodbridge Union at The Workhouse site.