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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Whitton like this:
WHITTON-CUM-THURLSTON, a parish in Ipswich district, Suffolk; 1½ mile N of Bramford r. station, and 2 N of Ipswich. Post town, Ipswich. Acres, 1,459. Rated property, £2,578. Pop., 565. Houses, 114. T. Lodge is the seat of Mrs. Steward; Lilburne House, of T. Cheesright, Esq.; and Sparrow's Nest, of S. Westhorp, Esq. The living is a rectory and a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £273.* Patron, the Bishop of N. The church has been recently restored and enlarged.
Whitton 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 Whitton itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Whitton, in Mid Suffolk and Suffolk | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/8221
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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