Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BARDWELL

BARDWELL, a village and a parish in Thingoe district, Suffolk. The village stands on a tributary of the Little Ouse river, 6 miles N by W of Thurston r. station; and 8 NE of Bury-St. Edmunds; and has a post office under Bury-St. Edmunds. The parish comprises 3,144 acres. Real property, £4, 971. Pop., 882. Houses, 198. The property is much subdivided. Some barrows occur on Bowbeck Heath. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £597.* Patron, St. John's college, Oxford. The church has a tower, stained glass windows, and some good monuments; and was thoroughly renovated in 1853. There are two dissentinig chapels, an endowed school, and charities £103.


(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: Bardwell CP/AP       Thingoe RegD/PLU       Suffolk AncC
Place: Bardwell

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