Inland Communities

Blything Hundred is an ancient sub-division of Suffolk occupying precisely seven veins of the River Blyth that have carved a broad arc into the deep glacial plateau clays of High Suffolk. This plateau is at its highest (about 55 metres) and flattest along a part of the western watershed, which separates the parishes of Ubbeston (Blything Hundred) and Laxfield (Hoxne Hundred). As inhabitants of the Hundred, families have an historical continuity with the Saxon people, or tribe, that had its capital here at Blythburgh. In this connection, 'Blything' is equated with 'people of the Blyth', a designation that may go further back to a coastal sub-division of land held by the Iron Age Iceni. Blythburgh is the site of a gathering place and first came to prominence as the religious centre of a branch of the Wuffinga kingship centred on Sutton Hoo. This royal connection is evident from the Christian burial at Blythburgh of King Ana in 654. It is recorded as having a market in 1086 and had a functional significance equal to the other Domesday economic centres of Suffolk, which were at Kelsale, Dunwich, Ipswich, Stowmarket, Eye, Hoxne, Bungay, and Beccles.

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R T Cooper (Yeoman)

Yeoman was the psudonym of R. T. Cooper of Ipswich who, between the Wars, wrote a series of occasional articles on Suffolk parishes for the Suffolk Chronicle and Mercury and the East Anglian Daily Time

There is a collection comprising 8 albums of photographs taken by Edmund Lovell (d.1972) between 1914 and 1929 while preparing a series of articles on Suffolk parishes for the Suffolk Chronicle and Mercury in conjunction with Yeoman. ( R.T. Cooper of Ipswich).

It is said that they travelled by motorbike and sidecar!.

Dates of articles

Cratfield May18th 1928

Leiston August 10th 1928

Sibton September 7th 1928

Wangford October 19th 1928

Westhall November 2nd 1928

Rumburgh August 9th 1929

Wrentham November 7th 1930

Heveningham August 15th 1930

Peasenhall June 13th 1930

Knodishall -cum -Buxton October 6th 1933

Aldringham-cum-Thorpe April 20th 1934

Brampton May18th 1934

Stoven July 6th 1934

Ubbeston October 24th 1934

Frostenden December 7th 1934

Wissett February 8th 1935

Chediston April 26th 1935

Linstead Parva May 24th 1935

Henstead February 21st 1936

Spexhall September 8th 1936

Benacre, April 13 1936