Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BEYTON, or Beighton

BEYTON, or Beighton, a parish in Stow district, Suffolk; 2 miles SSE of Thurston r. station, and 5 ESE of Bury-St.-Edmunds. It has a post office under Bury-St.-Edmunds. Acres, 625. Real property, £1,831. Pop., 360. Houses, 84. The property is subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £175.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is good.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Beyton AP/CP       Stow RegD/PLU       Suffolk AncC
Place names: BEIGHTON     |     BEYTON     |     BEYTON OR BEIGHTON
Place: Beyton

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