Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Kessingland

Kessingland, coast par. and vil., Suffolk, 4½ miles SW. of Lowestoft, 1691 ac. (40 water), pop. 1228; P.O., T.O.; on cliff, at NE. side of Kessingland fish houses, is a fixed light (Kessingland or Pakefield Gat), 68 ft. above high water, and seen 9 miles.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "coastal parish and village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Kessingland AP/CP       Suffolk AncC
Place: Kessingland

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