Whitton cum Thurlston is a former

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

in the

Ipswich Ipswich () is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England, of which it is the county town. The town is located in East Anglia about away from the mouth of the River Orwell and the North Sea. Ipswich is both on the Great Eastern Main Line r ...

district, in the county of

Suffolk Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowes ...

, England. It lies two miles north west of the centre of

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was built one mile to the south west. Although originally built by

Eastern Union Railway The Eastern Union Railway (EUR) was an English railway company, at first built from Colchester to Ipswich; it opened in 1846. It was proposed when the earlier Eastern Counties Railway failed to make its promised line from Colchester to Norwich. T ...

by 1868 the station was owned by

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. In 1901 the parish had a population of 604. Thurleston Lane - geograph

The

Ipswich and Stowmarket Navigation The River Gipping is the source river for the River Orwell in the county of Suffolk in East Anglia, England, which is named from the village of Gipping, and which gave its name to the former Gipping Rural District. The name is unrelated to the ...

(River Gipping) passed through the parish, which included the hamlet of Thurlston. It was formerly in

Bosmere and Claydon Hundred Bosmere and Claydon was a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of . The hundred is a fertile and picturesque district varying from 8 to about in length and breadth. It is bounded on the south by the Borough of Ipswich and Samford Hundred, on the west ...

. The living was a rectory in the

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, valued at £250 in 1868, in the patronage of the bishop. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, was rebuilt in 1852. The old church of Thurlston was then used as a barn.

History

In 1894 the parish of Whitton was formed from the rural part of Whitton cum Thurlston, in 1903 the parish was abolished and its area became part of Ipswich.

References

{{reflist Former civil parishes in Suffolk Ipswich