Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BABERGH

BABERGH, a hundred in the SW of Suffolk. It adjoins Essex, includes Sudbury, and contains thirty parishes and parts of two others. Acres, 73,428. Pop. in 1851, 24,401; in 1861, 24,198. Houses, 5,430.


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

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Feature Description: "a hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions")
Administrative units: Suffolk AncC
Place: Babergh

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