• A History of Bury St Edmunds - (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : The small Saxon settlement of Bedricesworth was transformed when the body of Edmund, martyred king of the East Saxons, was brought here in the early 10th century. Around it grew up one of the largest abbeys in England and a new, planned town, the grid-iron pattern of which still survives. After the abbey was dissolved, Bury remained the heart of West Suffolk and was county town until 1974. The second half of the 20th century brought rapid growth, with new light industry and tourism supplementing the traditional trades. This brilliant combination of archaeological evidence with meticulous documentary research is well illustrated, resulting in a book that Bury has long needed.
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• A History of Ipswich - (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : The town was already more than six centuries old when King John granted its Borough Charter in AD 1200. One of the first Saxon towns established, Ipswich has always had wide-ranging trade links, through which its merchants became rich and influential.
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• A History of Suffolk - (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : Suffolk is an attractive and distinctive county with a gentle, intensively farmed landscape and relatively unspoilt coastline. It is celebrated for its fine flint and stone churches, its timber-framed houses, picturesque villages, bustling market towns and the two ancient boroughs of Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich. It also has one of the fastest growing populations.
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• John Kirby's Suffolk: His Maps and Roadbooks - (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : Here, published in facsimile for the first time since the eighteenth century, are John Kirby's extremely rare large-scale Suffolk maps of 1736 and 1737 and the 1735 edition of his road-book "The Suffolk Traveller", the earliest single-county roadbook. The maps of 1764 and 1766 which his sons published after his death are also provided, the former decorated with twelve engravings of castles and abbeys in the county. The earliest maps were the result of a survey of the whole county which Kirby carried out, with some help from Nathaniel Bacon, between 1732 and 1734. Although it is easy to point to inaccuracies, the hand-coloured maps are highly decorative and correct many of the errors common on earlier Suffolk maps in county atlases. The heraldry on the one-inch maps and the named owners and occupiers of the larger estates provide the basis for new select directories of the county in the mid 1730s and mid-1760s.
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• National Index of Parish Registers: Suffolk - (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : Published by the Society of Genealogists Enterprises. -

• Suffolk Returns from the Census of Religious Worship of 1851 - (Book - Amazon.co.uk) : The census returns edited in this volume provide a unique sample of mid nineteenth-century religious life. They are printed in calendared form, and their findings set in local and national context; information about land and property ownership is supplied, making it possible to compare patterns of ownership in most parishes with the presence or absence of Dissent. Chapel dates are collated with those in meeting-house certificates and printed notices, while much detail refused by Anglican clergymen is recovered, together with communicant numbers and/or information about the frequency of Holy Communion.
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