Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PEASENHALL

PEASENHALL, a village and a parish in Blything district, Suffolk. The village stands on the river Minsmere, 3¾ miles W of Darsham r. station, and 4¼ N N W of Saxmundham; and has a post-office under Saxmundham. The parish comprises 1, 995 acres. Real property, £4, 194. Pop., 875. Houses, 191. The property is much subdivided. There is an extensive agricultural-implement manufactory. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Sibton, in the diocese of Norwich The church was rebuilt in 1861, and is in the later English style. There are chapels for Independents and Wesleyans, and charities £54.


(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: Peasenhall AP/CP       Blything RegD/PLU       Suffolk AncC
Place: Peasenhall

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