Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for STANNINGFIELD

STANNINGFIELD, a parish in Thingoe district, Suffolk; 5¾ miles SSE of Bury-St. Edmunds r. station. Post town, Bury-St. Edmunds. Acres, 1,455. Real property, £2,330. Pop., 351. Houses, 69. The manor, with Coldham Hall, belongs to Sir T. R. Gage, Bart. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £345. Patron, Sir T. R. Gage, Bart. The church is good. There is a Roman Catholic chapel, with schools attached. Mrs. Inch bald, the novelist, was a native.


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

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