Description
Walpole, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, 3 miles SW of Halesworth station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Halesworth; money order and telegraph office, Halesworth. Acreage, 1675; population, 393. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor belongs to Lord Huntingfield. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £80 with residence. Patron, the Church Patronage Society. The church is a structure of flint in the Early Decorated style, and was enlarged and restored in 1878. There are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
