Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WENHASTON

WENHASTON, a village, a parish, and a sub-district in Blything district, Suffolk. The village stands 2¾ miles SE of Halesworth r. station, and has a post-office under Halesworth. The parish includes Mells hamlet, and comprises 2,196 acres. Real property, £4,395. Pop., 948. Houses, 229. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £143. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is good; and there are a Wesleyan chapel, an endowed school with £28 a year, and charities £44. Ruins of an ancient chapel are at Mells.—The sub-district contains 18 parishes and an extra-parochial tract. Acres, 28,311. Pop., 8,791. Houses, 2,006.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village, a parish, and a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Wenhaston CP/AP       Wenhaston SubD       Blything RegD/PLU       Suffolk AncC
Place: Wenhaston

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