Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WIMBISH

WIMBISH, a parish, with Thunderley hamlet, in Saffron-Walden district, Essex; 4¼ miles SE of Saffron-Walden r. station. Post town, Saffron-Walden. Acres, 4,862. Real property, £6,203. Pop., 939. Houses, 195. The property is much subdivided. The living is a double vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £300.* Patron, the Rev. H. H. Beamish. The church is good; and there is a parochial school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with Thunderley hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Wimbish AP/CP       Saffron Walden RegD/PLU       Essex AncC
Place: Wimbish

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