Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LACKFORD

LACKFORD, a hundred in the NW of Suffolk, contiguous to Norfolk and to Cambridgeshire; and containing Brandon parish, sixteen other parishes, and part of another. Acres, 77,025. Pop. in 1851,16,321; in 1861,15,077. Houses, 3,216.


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

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Feature Description: "a hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions")
Administrative units: Suffolk AncC
Place: Lackford

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