Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for COWLING, or Cowlinge

COWLING, or Cowlinge, a parish in Risbridge district, Suffolk; at the boundary with Cambridge, 5¾ miles S of Kennet r. station, and 7½ SE of Newmarket. It has a post office under Newmarket, and fairs on 31 July and 17 Oct. Acres, 3, 025. Real property, £5, 816. Pop., 842. Houses, 176. The manor belonged to Longsword, the son of Henry II. by Fair Rosamond. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £100. Patron, Trinity H all, Cambridge. The church is ancient. There are an Independent chapel, a college-school erected in 1868 for farmers' sons, and charities £30.


(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: Cowlinge CP/AP       Risbridge RegD/PLU       Suffolk AncC
Place names: COWLING     |     COWLINGE     |     COWLING OR COWLINGE
Place: Cowlinge

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