Description
Woolpit, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, 1 1/2 mile SW of Elmswell station on the G.E.R;, and 5 1/2 NW by W of Stowmarket. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bury St Edmunds, and a fair on 16 Sept. Acreage, 1881; population, 1018. Bricks and tiles are made. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; gross value, £340 with residence. The church is a structure of flint in the Decorated style, with a handsome porch, tower, and spire. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel, a meeting-room for the Brethren, and a village institute.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
