Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FORDLEY

FORDLEY, a quondam parish in Blything district, Suffolk; on the river Badingham, near the East Suffolk railway, 3¾ miles NE of Saxmundham. It is now incorporated with Middleton; but the living of it still ranks as a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Middleton, in the diocese of Norwich. Its church stood in the same yard as the church of Middleton.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a quondam parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Fordley Hmlt/AP       Blything RegD/PLU       Suffolk AncC
Place: Fordley

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