Description
Wherstead, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, on the river Orwell, 2 1/2 miles S of Ipswich station on the G.E.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office at Wherstead Road (T.S.O.), under Ipswich. Acreage, 2142; population, 315. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor, with Wherstead Park, belongs to the Dashwoods. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net value, j£150 with residence. The church is a building of flint in the Perpendicular style, with two Norman doorways, and has been well restored.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
