In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Woolpit like this:
WOOLPIT, a parish, with a village, in Stow district, Suffolk; 1¼ mile SW of Elmswell r. station, and 5½ NW by W of Stowmarket. It has a post-office‡ under Bury-St. Edmunds, and a large fair on 16 Sept. and following days. Acres, 1,877. Real property, £3,947. Pop., 1,008. ...
Houses, 226. The property is subdivided. Bricks and tiles are made. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £450.* Patron, Mrs. Page. The church is good; and its tower and spire were destroyed by lightning in 1852, and rebuilt at a cost of £2,000. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel, a national school, and charities £68.
Woolpit through time
Woolpit is now part of Mid Suffolk district. Click here for graphs and data of how Mid Suffolk has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Woolpit itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Woolpit in Mid Suffolk | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/7970
Date accessed: 27th April 2024
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