Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BACTON

BACTON, a parish in Hartismere district, Suffolk; on the East-Union railway, near Finningham station, 6 miles N of Stowmarket. It has a post office under Stowmarket. Acres, 2,204. Real property, £4,542. Pop., 733 Houses, 161. The property is subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £700.* Patron, the Rev. A. B. Hemsworth. The church is good; and there are charities £86.


(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: Bacton AP/CP       Hartismere RegD/PLU       Suffolk AncC
Place: Bacton

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