Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WHITTON-CUM-THURLSTON

WHITTON-CUM-THURLSTON, a parish in Ipswich district, Suffolk; 1½ mile N of Bramford r. station, and 2 N of Ipswich. Post town, Ipswich. Acres, 1,459. Rated property, £2,578. Pop., 565. Houses, 114. T. Lodge is the seat of Mrs. Steward; Lilburne House, of T. Cheesright, Esq.; and Sparrow's Nest, of S. Westhorp, Esq. The living is a rectory and a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £273.* Patron, the Bishop of N. The church has been recently restored and enlarged.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Ipswich RegD/PLU       Suffolk AncC
Place: Whitton

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