Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ASH-BOCKING, or Ashbocken

ASH-BOCKING, or Ashbocken, a parish in Bosmere district, Suffolk; 5 miles NE of Claydon r. station, and 8 N of Ipswich. Post Town, Coddenham under Needham-Market. Acres, 1,408. Real property, £2,588. Pop., 324. Houses, 70. The property is not much divided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £333.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church has a brass of a Bocking of 1585, and is very good. Charities, £25.


(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: Ashbocking AP/CP       Bosmere and Claydon RegD/PLU       Suffolk AncC
Place names: ASHBOCKEN     |     ASH BOCKING     |     ASH BOCKING OR ASHBOCKEN
Place: Ashbocking

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