Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for THURLOW (Great)

THURLOW (Great), a parish, with a village, in Risbridge district, Suffolk; 3¼ miles N by E of Haverhill r. station. It has a post-office under Newmarket, and a fair on 11 Oct.; and it gives name and title to the descendants of Lord Chancellor Thurlow. Acres, 2,023. Real property, £3,806. Pop., 423. Houses, 91. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely. Value, £518.* Patrons, the Trustees of Lady Harland. The church is good.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Great Thurlow AP/CP       Risbridge RegD/PLU       Suffolk AncC
Place names: GREAT THURLOW     |     THURLOW     |     THURLOW GREAT
Place: Great Thurlow

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