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Battisford

Description

Battisford, a village and a parish in Suffolk, 3 miles W by S of Needham Market station on the G.E.R., and 3 1/2 S from Stowmarket. Post town, Needham Market, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1581; population, 399. An hospital of knights of St John of Jerusalem was erected here in the reign of Henry II., and given at the dissolution to Sir Richard Gresham. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £249. The church is a Gothic building of stone, with a brick tower.

Record Sources

1911 Battisford Census
1901 Battisford Census
1891 Battisford Census
1881 Battisford Census
1871 Battisford Census
1861 Battisford Census
1851 Battisford Census
1841 Battisford Census

British Phone Books 1880-1984

Birth, Marriage & Death Records
 


Last updated: 31st August 2010