Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for STONHAM-EARL

STONHAM-EARL, a parish in Bosmere district, Suffolk; containing Stonham village, 3 miles NE of Needham-Market r. station. Acres, 2,520. Real property, £5,047. Pop. in 1851, 860; in 1861, 752. Houses, 161. The property is subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £659.* Patron, Pembroke College, Cambridge. The church was partially restored in 1865. There are a dissenting chapel, a foundation school, and charities £120.


(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: Earl Stonham CP/AP       Bosmere and Claydon RegD/PLU       Suffolk AncC
Place: Earl Stonham

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