- source: Family History Library Catalog
A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Creeting St. Olave from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:
- "CREETING-ST. OLAVE, a parish in Bosmere [registration] district, Suffolk; on an affluent of the river Gipping, 2¼ miles NNE of Needham-Market. Post town: Needham-Market. Real property: £626. Population: 41. Houses: 7. An alien priory, a cell to Gresteen abbey, stood here at Gratings, and was given to Eton college. See Creeting-All Saints."
Creeting St Mary, Suffolk is 0.7 miles (1.2 km) SSW of Creeting St Olave. This is measured directly between the two points 'as the crow flies' ignoring any geographical features such as rivers or hills. (Source: GENUKI) It is assumed that Creeting St. Olave was absorbed into Creeting St. Mary in 1884. (See Creeting All Saints for an explanation.)
Research Tips
- A map of Suffolk from 1900 provided online by A Vision of Britain Through Time (University of Portsmouth Department of Geography) can be enlarged to view individual parishes. Careful inspection will usually lead to the discovery of smaller hamlets founded before 1900. The rural districts (marked with their names printed in blue) are those in existence in 1900, not those introduced in 1934. The more ancient hundreds are marked in red. Most (but not all) parish names are underlined in red.
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