A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
HAWSTEAD, a village and a parish in Thingoe district, Suffolk. The village stands 4 miles S by W of Bury-St. Edmunds r. station, and was known at Domesday as Halstead. The parish, with Hardwick extra-parochial tract, comprises 2,237 acres; and its boundary-line passes through Newton church. Real property, £3,935. Pop., 446. Houses, 94. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged to Bury abbey; passed to the Fitz-Eustaces, the Cloptons, and the Drurys; and belongs now to Lady Callum, widow of Sir T. G. Cullum, Bart. Hawstead Place, the old manor-house, was visited, in the time of the Drurys, by Queen Elizabeth; and is now a farm-house. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £581.* Patron, Lady Cullum. The church is of the 15th century, with a tower; was recently restored, at a cost of £1,275; and contains monuments of the Fitz-Eustaces and the Drurys, and three brasses. There are church-lands, with rental of £21; alms-houses, with £170 a-year; and other charities with £40. Bishop Hall was rector.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Hawstead AP/CP Thingoe RegD/PLU Suffolk AncC |
| Place names: | HALSTEAD | HAWSTEAD |
| Place: | Hawstead |
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