Description
Shipmeadow, a parish, with a village, in the vale of the Waveney, Suffolk, on the Norfolk border, 3 miles W by S of Beccles station on the G.E.R., and 3 E from Bungay. It has a post office under Beccles; money order and telegraph office, Beccles. Acreage, 823; population, 223. The manor belongs to the Suckling family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £170 with residence. The church is a building of flint and stone in the Decorated style of architecture. The Wangford Workhouse here has accommodation for about 350 inmates, and has a chapel which was erected in 1866 from designs by the late G. E. Street, R.A., and a cemetery.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
