Description
Walberswick, a parish, with an ancient village, in Suffolk, on the coast, with a station on the Halesworth and Southwold railway, 109 miles from London. It lias a post and money order office under Southwold; telegraph office, Southwold. Acreage, 1985; population, 270. The village was a fishing-town till the Reformation, had thirteen barques and twenty-two fishing-boats in 1451, and was burnt in 1583,1633, and 1683. The living is a vicarage with Blythborough annexed, in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £130 with residence. The church is of the 15th century, was originally 124 feet long, and is now but a portion of the old fabric. There are Primitive Methodist and Congregational chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
