Whinburgh and Westfield

[5] To the left is a picture of a historical map from 1946 showing Whinburgh and Westfield's relative location to surrounding villages.

The nearby village Yaxham is also on the map and the small black boxes and squares along the roads show houses and land that has been built on.

As Whinburgh and Westfield were two separate parishes until 1935, two sources were used to create the population structure line graph.

This number decreased to 279 however by the 1911 census, this could be down to migration to more metropolitan areas during the peak of the industrial revolution with people in search for work and money and improved standard of living.

"[8] This observation made in 1887 counts for 220 people living in 49 houses in an area of 1241 acres meaning an average of around 5 persons in each household.

[9] Employment figures from the 1881 census for Whinburgh and Westfield show a large percentage of the population were working in agriculture or to have an unknown occupation.

[6][7] Mainly it was men that worked in agriculture as farmers and people with an unknown occupation happened to be all female according to the census data on the Vision of Britain website.

Other occupations included work in domestic services such as maids and housekeepers and individuals using skilled labour for their craft like carpenters and blacksmiths.

From its early days it has grown, its reputation flourished and is now firmly established in the local music event calendar.

Ordnance Survey map of Whinburgh and Westfield from 1946
Total population supplied by neighbourhood statistics and vision of Britain
Occupation structure of the 157 working population in Whinburgh and Westfield in 1881. Information retrieved from the Vision of Britain website.
St Mary's Church, Whinburgh
St Andrew's Westfield