Whitton cum Thurlston

Whitton cum Thurlston is a former civil parish, now in the unparished area of Ipswich, in the county of Suffolk, England. It layies 2 miles north west from the centre of Ipswich, within which borough it is now included. Bramford railway station was built 1 mile to the south west. Although originally built by Eastern Union Railway by 1868 the station was owned by Great Eastern Railway.[1] In 1901 the parish had a population of 604.[2]

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Whitton

The Ipswich and Stowmarket Navigation (River Gipping) passed through the parish, which included the hamlet of Thurlston. It was formerly in Bosmere and Claydon Hundred.

The living was a rectory in the diocese of Norwich, valued at £250 in 1868, in the patronage of the bishop. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, was rebuilt in 1852. The old church of Thurlston was then used as a barn.

History

In 1894 the parish of Whitton was formed from the rural part of Whitton cum Thurlston, in 1903 the parish was abolished to form Ipswich.[3]

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