Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SOMERSHAM

SOMERSHAM, a parish, with a village, in Bosmere district, Suffolk; 3¾ miles NE by N of Hadleigh r. station. Post town, Ipswich. Acres, 1,027. Real property, £2,017. Pop., 366. Houses, 98. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £280.* Patron, the Rev. N. J. Stubbin. There are chapels for Independents and Baptists.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Somersham AP/CP       Bosmere and Claydon RegD/PLU       Suffolk AncC
Place: Somersham

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