Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HARTEST

HARTEST, a village, a parish, and a sub-district in Sudbury district, Suffolk. The village stands 7½ miles NE of Clare r. station, and 9 NNW of Sudbury; and has a post office under Bury-ST. Edmunds. The parish comprises 1, 964 acres. Real property, £3, 530. Pop., 744. Houses, 164. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Boxted, in the diocese of Ely. Value, £652. * Patron, the Crown. The church is ancient and tolerable, with a tower. A school has £41 from endowment; and other charities have £10.—The sub-district contains also eight other parishes. Acres, 18, 310. Pop., 6, 428. Houses, 1, 405.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village, a parish, and a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Hartest AP/CP       Sudbury RegD/PLU       Suffolk AncC
Place: Hartest

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