Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for COOKLEY

COOKLEY, a parish in Blything district, Suffolk; near the East Suffolk railway, 3 miles WSW of Halesworth. Post town, Halesworth. Acres, 1, 704. Real property, £2, 648. Pop., 252. Houses, 56. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Huntingfield, in the diocese of Norwich. The church consists of nave and chancel, with a tower; and has a Norman door, decorated English windows, an oaken roof, good carved benches, an octagonal font, and a brass of 1587.


(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: Cookley AP/CP       Blything RegD/PLU       Suffolk AncC
Place: Cookley

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