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The ParishThe parish of Harkstead sits in the extreme south of Suffolk, since it stands on the northern shores of the Stour Estuary it technically also forms part of Suffolk's North Sea coast as well as being the border with neighbouring Essex. Harkstead is located about 6 1/2 miles southeast of the county town of Ipswich and sits in the Shotley Peninsula which divides the Orwell and Stour estuaries. Harkstead is sited about a mile and a half east of the B1080 road which connects Ipswich with Brantham. Harkstead is a small and compact village placed a couple of hundred metres inland from the Stour. The parish would, despite its coastal setting, have been a largely arable farming area, the soils of the Peninsula being light and easily worked. Given its coastal location numerous small streams and drains head south to the nearby Stour. Harkstead is sited at around 20 metres above the sea in gentle countryside with local heights no more than a further 10 metres or so. Harkstead parish was fairly typically sized for Suffolk, it covered just under 1,600 acres and would have supported a population of around 300 parishioners. In Domesday times Harkstead was shared three ways, King William retained the greater share with much else in control of one Countess Adelaide of Aumale whilst a gentleman named Robert Gernon held a token holding; collectively the parish could offer an impressive 23 ploughs, small meadows, extensive pastures with large counts of sheep, extensive woodlands filled with pigs and 2 mills, a wealthy spot indeed. |
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Register No | Covering Dates | Deposited With | Register Style | Quality Standard | Comments |
1 | 3rd July 1754 - 3rd December 1811 | Suffolk Record Office - Ipswich - Reference - FB/184/D/2/4 | Plain, ruled & margined book containing combined Banns & Marriages | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
2 | 1st November 1813 - 11th November 1836 | Suffolk Record Office - Ipswich - Reference - FB/184/D/2/5 | Standard Rose style preprinted and prenumbered Marriage register | Grade 2 Register - not a perfect read but with a low likelihood of misreads | None |
Holbrook
All Saints
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Chelmondiston
St Andrew
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Chelmondiston
St Andrew
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Holbrook All
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Erwarton St
Mary
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