Welcome to our past and SLHG's future, please bear with us as we transfer our paper documents to digital. We hope you will read and enjoy but whilst every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of our words and images we all know the truth can depend on your viewpoint.
Work and Commerce –including the post, pubs, shops, crafts, trades, malting, milling, farm practices and other services.
Our history is strongly linked with our surrounding villages and of course Stowmarket. Over the centuries our boundaries have been changed by political and ecclesiastical dictates.
Historically the Uplands and the river valley were once known as Thornei. The River Gipping was our western and south westerm boundary though in recent times much of our historic lands have become part of Stowmarket.
We did ask ourselves where to draw the line of our historical interest but the answer was there are no clear cut boundaries as Stowupland today has been shaped by the past. So whilst our main focus is defined by today’s parish boundary we will include stories from a much wider area.
We are indebted to local residents, both past and present, for their contributions to our archives through which we have learnt and continue to learn much of our past from before Domesday to more recent times.
Material from this website is to be used solely for the purposes of personal research and may not be reproduced as part of any ‘for profit’ enterprise unless specific permission has been asked and received. If sharing please cite ‘Stowupland Local History Group’ as your source. It is the reader’s responsibility to verify factual details but please let us know of any errors you come across.
I have chosen to use this symbol to indicate local people who served in the armed forces, Tributes to those men who we know did not return from active service can be found on the memorial pages, but I feel we should remember all who were prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice.
