Risbridge is a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of 58,468 acres (236.61 km2).[1]
Risbridge Hundred forms the south western corner of Suffolk extending 15 miles (24 km) from north to south and between 4 and 9 miles (14 km) in breadth. It is bounded on the west by Cambridgeshire on the south by Essex, on the east by Babergh and Thingoe Hundreds and on the north by Lackford Hundred. It is in the Franchise or Liberty of St Edmund, in the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, Deanery of Clare and Diocese of Ely.
The southern boundary with Essex is formed by the River Stour and the hundred is crossed by a number of streams. It is generally a fertile agricultural area with predominantly clay soil. The major towns in the hundred are Clare and Haverhill.
Listed as Risebruge in the Domesday Book, the meaning of the name is not fully understood but probably "Hrisa's bridge" or a similar personal name. The bridge in question would almost certainly have crossed the Stour, an important crossing at a time when bridges were rare.[2] However similar place-names (ex: Ricebridge near Leigh in Surrey, Risbro in Sweden) are believed to have been bridges with a causeway over marshy land made from brushwood (ris) held by wooden pegs.
^William White (1844). History, gazetteer, and directory of Suffolk. p. 721.
Risbridge is a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of 58,468 acres (236.61 km2). RisbridgeHundred forms the south western corner of Suffolk extending 15 miles...
inheritance. The adjacent manor of Kedington or Ketton in Suffolk, RisbridgeHundred, had by 1312 descended to Thomas de Barnardiston (husband of Margery)...
Desning Hall was a manor house in RisbridgeHundred, in Suffolk, England, dating from Anglo-Saxon times. Desning Hall's last resident was Sidney Arthur...
Chedburgh is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located on the A143 around five miles south-west of...
Winchester of 1285. At a muster in 1539 the listed Hundreds of Suffolk produced the following forces: Risbridge: 161 archers, 178 billmen Wilford: 58 men in...
The Manors of Suffolk : notes on their history and devolution, V: RisbridgeHundred (Taylor, Garnett, Evans, & Co., Ltd, Manchester 1909), Barnardiston...
two hundreds, Cosford, Ipswich and Parham as half hundreds and Samford as a hundred and a half. Hoxne hundred was then known as Bishops hundred and the...
Cambridgeshire, and on the south east by Blackbourn, Thingoe and RisbridgeHundreds. It is in the Franchise or Liberty of St Edmund, in the Diocese of...
Edmunds division of the county and is divided between the Lackford and RisbridgeHundred. Kentford is also part of the Newmarket petty sessional division,...
London: T. Fisher Unwin (Mutford and Lothingland, Plomesgate and RisbridgeHundred) The Manors of Suffolk; Notes on their History and Devolution, with...
agriculture. Withersfield appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 in the Risbridgehundred of Suffolk. It was made up of 2 villagers, 13 smallholders, 3 slaves...
and a Half Hundreds" which included the Hundreds of Thingoe, Thedwastre, Lackford, Risbridge, Blackburn and Babergh, and the half hundred of Cosford....
Redisham, emparked with the parish combined with Ringsfield in 1627 Monks Risbridge, between Stradishall and Barnardiston Manton, also known as Manetuna (named...
1870s, Little Thurlow was described as: a parish, with a village, in Risbridge district, Suffolk; 4½ miles N of Haverhill r. station. It has a post-office...
over more than half of the county; that of St Edmund included the hundreds of Risbridge, Thedwastre, Thingoe, Cosford, Lackford and Blackbourn in which...
in W.A. Copinger, The Manors of Suffolk, V: Hundreds of Lothingland and Mutford, Plomesgate, and Risbridge (Taylor, Garnett, and Evans, & Co., Ltd., Manchester...
households, considered to be a 'quite large' village, and part of the Hundred of Risbridge. There was a population of fifteen villagers, nine smallholders and...
on their History and Devolution Vol. 5: The Hundreds of Lothingland and Mutford, Plomesgate and Risbridge (Author/Taylor, Garnet, Evans and Co. Ltd.,...
on their History and Devolution Vol. 5: The Hundreds of Lothingland and Mutford, Plomesgate and Risbridge (Author/Taylor, Garnet, Evans and Co. Ltd.,...
Domesday Book, at 600 acres one of the smallest parishes in the hundred of Risbridge. There are some 13 listed buildings, including a 19th-century bridge...
Global Information