Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for RUSHMERE

RUSHMERE, a village and a parish in Woodbridge district, Suffolk. The village stands 1¾ mile E S E of Westerfield r. station, and 2½ E by N of Ipswich; and has a post-office under Ipswich. The parish includes part of Ipswich borough, and comprises 2, 142 acres. Real property, £3, 599. Pop., 678. Houses, 141. Pop.of the part in I. borough, 240. Houses, 54. The manor belongs to the Marquis of Bristol. Limes and Pineloftare chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £180.* Patron, the Marquis of Bristol. The church was rebuilt in 1861, at a cost of £1, 500. There is a national school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Rushmere CP/AP       Woodbridge RegD/PLU       Suffolk AncC
Place: Rushmere St Andrew

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