Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HERRINGSWELL

HERRINGSWELL, a parish in Mildenhall district, Suffolk; on a branch of the river Lark, near the boundary with Cambridge, 2¼ miles NNE of Kennet r. station, and 3½ S of Mildenhall. Post town, Mildenhall, under Soham. Acres, 2, 540. Real property, £1, 487. Pop., 203. Houses, 42. The property is divided among a few. Herringswell House is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £200.* patron, the Rev. J. T. Hales Tooke. The church was destroyed by fire in 1 869.


(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: Herringswell CP/AP       Mildenhall RegD/PLU       Suffolk AncC
Place: Herringswell

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