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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.
THINGOE, a district and a hundred in the W of Suffolk. The district contains 47 parishes, and 2 extra-parochial tracts; and is divided into the sub-districts of Rougham, Fornham, and Ixworth. Acres, 82,464. Poor rates in 1863, £10,217. Pop. in 1851, 19,014; in 1861, 18,224. Houses, 3,867. Marriages in 1863, 114; births, 554,-of which 46 were illegitimate; deaths, 354, -of which 124 were at ages under 5 years, and 9 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 1,298; births, 6,074; deaths, 3,530. The places of worship, in 1851, were 47 of the Church of England, with 8,068 sittings; 2 of Independents, with 350 s; 5 of Baptists, with 839 s.; 2 of Wesleyans, with 303 s.; 4 of Primitive Methodists, with 466 s.; 2 of Wesleyan Reformers, with 252 s.; and 1 undefined, with 250 s. The schools were 37 public day-schools, with 1,850 scholars; 32 private day-schools, with 658 s.; 38 Sunday-schools, with, 1,963 s.; and 6 evening schools for adults, with 55 s.-The hundred contains only 20 parishes. Acres, 31,114 Pop. in 1851, 7,064; in 1861, 6,820. Houses, 1,394.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a district and a hundred" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Thingoe RegD/PLU Suffolk AncC |
| Place: | Thingoe |
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