Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GOSBECK

GOSBECK, a parish in Bosmere district, Suffolk; 4¼ miles E by N of Needham r. station. Post town, Needham-Market. Acres, 1, 466. Real property, £2, 780. Pop., 301. Houses, 65. The manor belongs to Sir W. F. Middleton, Bart. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £316.* Patron, Pembroke College, Cambridge. The church has an embattled tower, and is good. .


(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: Gosbeck AP/CP       Bosmere and Claydon RegD/PLU       Suffolk AncC
Place: Gosbeck

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