Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for STONHAM-ASPALL

STONHAM-ASPALL, a parish, with a village, in Bosmere district, Suffolk; 4½ miles NE of Needham-Market r. station. It has a post-office under Ipswich. Acres, 2,399. Real property, £4,957. Pop. in 1851, 814; in 1861, 694. Houses, 156. The property is subdivided. Broughton Hall is an ancient mansion, once the seat of the Wingfields. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £666.* Patron, Miss Broke. The church is decorated English, with ornate steeple. There are a free school, a national school, and charities £150.


(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: Stonham Aspall AP/CP       Suffolk AncC
Place: Stonham Aspall

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