Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WHATFIELD

WHATFIELD, a parish, with a village, in Cosford district, Suffolk; 3 miles N of Hadleigh r. station. Post town, Ipswich. Acres, 1,570. Real property, £2,696. Pop., 340. Houses, 74. The property is divided among a few. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £484.* Patron, Jesus College, Cambridge. The church is old but good. There are an Independent chapel and a national school.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Whatfield CP/AP       Cosford RegD/PLU       Suffolk AncC
Place: Whatfield

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