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Suffolk 1835

Introduction - Description - Abbreviations - Guidelines - Surrounding counties - Maps - Home page

Introduction

Graphics linked from the maps section of this page produce a large print map of Suffolk in 1835, a tactile map with braille lettering, and a key to the tactile map. This page explains and describes the maps. Towns shown are parliamentary boroughs and polling places in 1835. The Description section says what is on the map. The Abbreviations section gives locations within the county. The Guidelines section gives a sequence of places along guidelines through the county. The page Suffolkand Parliament 1835 gives information on the parliamentary status of places. The Maps section has links to the maps, which are in pdf (Acrobat) format, and to a page describing the way to produce a tactile map with braille letters from the pdf file. On another page is a general introduction to this series of maps of the English counties which are intended to be accessible to blind and partially sighted people. The Genuki pages for Suffolk have more information about the county, its records, and all its towns and parishes.

Description

There is a solid circle at the top left of the map. The title follows it at the top of the map, which is the North.The county boundary is shown by a dotted line. The Chapman County Code SFK is in large letters in the top centre of the map. Towns are large dots, with a 2 letter abbreviation of the town name nearby. Guidelines linking the towns are solid lines. A ten mile scale bar is in the bottom left corner. Suffolk is a coastal county, about 65 miles east to west by about 50 miles north to south.

Abbreviations and locations

In the list below the two letter abbreviation is given first, then the place name, then the position on the map within the county.

BE Beccles, near the Eastern end of the Northern boundary

BO Botesdale, half way across, near the Northern boundary

BU Bury Saint Edmunds, half way up, near the West

EY Eye, half way across, near the North

FR Framlingham, half way up, in the Eastern half

HD Hadleigh, in the South-West

HL Halesworth, in the North-east

IP Ipswich, half way across, near the South

LA Lavenham, in the South-West

MI Mildenhall, in the North-West

ND Needham, half way across, almost half way up

NE Newmarket, partly in Cambridgeshire, shown outside the Western boundary half way up the map

SA Saxmundham, half way up, near the East

ST Stow Market, half way across, half way up

SU Sudbury, just inside the Southern boundary, half way along it.

WI Wickham Brook, in the South-West

WO Woodbridge, in the South-East

Other places

The places shown have a parliamentary status in 1835. Others have become more important later. The ones mentioned here are on the East coast.

Felixstowe is at the South-East corner of the county.

Lowestoft is near the North-East corner of the county, on the coast level with Beccles.

Guidelines

Guidelines are shown to link the places on the map. They are chosen to make it possible to describe the positions of places. In some cases the guidelines are roads, but generally they are arbitrary.

Five guidelines are shown, a long one across the top of the county,four short ones below.

Across the top of the county, from Newmarket shown outside the western boundary, right and up to Mildenhall, right to Botesdale, right to Eye, right to Halesworth, then up to Beccles.
Middle left, from Wickham Brook on the left, then up and right to Bury Saint Edmunds, right and down to Stow Market, right and down to Needham.
Middle right, from Framlingham on the left across right to Saxmundham.
Bottom left, a triangle. Sudbury is bottom left of the county, from there right to Hadleigh, left and up to Lavenham, down back to Sudbury.
Bottom right, from Ipswich on the left of the line, right and up to Woodbridge.

Surrounding counties

Names of surrounding counties surrounding Suffolk are not shown on the map. The Eastern boundary is the coast, on the South is Essex, on the West is Cambridgeshire, on the North is Norfolk.

Maps

Graphic of Tactile map with braille names (pdf file)

Graphic of key in braille (pdf file)

Instructions for making a tactile map

Large print map (pdf file)

A single copy of this page can be made by or for any individual user. If you wish to make multiple copies or modifications, please contact David Hawgood - email david at hawgood dot com - I will normally give permission but I wish to know what use is being made of the maps. I also welcome comments.