Long Melford, Suffolk

Location

Long Melford is an ancient parish located in the south of the county of Suffolk.

Long Melford is approximately twenty miles west of the county town of Ipswich with Colchester, Essex some seventeen miles to the south-east. Sudbury is approximately three miles south.

Parish Church

The Parish (CofE) Church is Holy Trinity which can be found here on Google Street View.

Parish Registers

Suffolk Archives appears not to publish on their website information regarding individual surviving parish registers, but does offer a PDF listing of information they offer on microfiche. See https://www.suffolkarchives.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/PARISH-REGS-ON-FICHE-FILM-.pdf (Accessed 21 Sep 2023). For Long Melford those records cover the years 1559 to 1900.

For details of Suffolk Parish records which are available online see FamilySearch's page https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Suffolk_Church_Records#Parish_Records_Online (accessed 3 Mar 2023)

Adjacent (Pre 1832) Parishes

To the east of Long Melford lies Lavenham and Acton. To the south is the extra-parochial place of Sudbury St Bartholomew, Sudbury (St George), along with Borley in Essex. To the west are Foxearth and Liston in Essex along with Glemsford and Stanstead. To the north are Shimplingthorne and Alpheton.

Gleanings from

• Long Melford Census Returns
  • 1851 Census Long Melford