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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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LETHERINGHAM, a parish, with a village, in Plomesgate district, Suffolk; on the river Deben, 2½ miles NW of Wickham-Market, and 2½ WSW of Parham r. station. Post town, Wickham-Market. Acres, 1,134. Real property, £1,718. Pop., 208. Houses, 39. The manor belongs to the Duke of Hamilton. A priory of Black canons, a cell to St. Peter's monastery in Ipswich, was founded here by Sir Edwin Bovile; and w as given, at the dissolution, first to Sir Anthony Wingfield, afterwards to his third daughter, Elizabeth Naunton. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the p. curacy of Hoo, in the diocese of Norwich. The church is ancient; belonged to the priory; has a tower; and contains some decayed monuments of the Boviles, the Wingfields, and the Nauntons.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish, with a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Letheringham CP/AP Plomesgate RegD/PLU Suffolk AncC |
| Place: | Letheringham |
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