Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GESTINGTHORPE, or Guestingthorpe

GESTINGTHORPE, or Guestingthorpe, a village and a parish in the district of Sudbury and county of Essex. The village stands on a small affluent of the river Stour, 3¼ miles NNE of Castle-Hedingbam r. station, and 4¼ WSW of Sudbury; and has a post office under Halstead. The parish comprises 2, 630 acres. Real property, £5, 103. Pop., 769. Houses, 183. The property is much subdivided. The living is twofold, a vicarage and a sinecure rectory, in the diocese of Rochester. Value of the vicarage, £150;* of the rectory, £454. Patron of both, P. Elwes, Esq. The church is old but good; and has a tower. Charities, £16.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Gestingthorpe AP/CP       Essex AncC
Place names: GESTINGTHORPE     |     GESTINGTHORPE OR GUESTINGTHORPE     |     GUESTINGTHORPE
Place: Gestingthorpe

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