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Great Ashfield, Suffolk

Historical Description

Ashfield, Great, a parish in Suffolk, 2½ miles N of Elmswell station on the G.E.R., and 7½ NW of Stowmarket. It has a post-office of the name of Ashfield, under Bury St Edmunds; money order and telegraph office, Elmswell. Acreage, 1548; population, 362. Ashfield Lodge and Ashfield House are chief residences. Ashfield was the birthplace of Lord Chancellor Thurlow, and of his brother, the Bishop of Durham. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; gross yearly value, £60. Patron, Lord Thurlow. The church is a small brick and flint edifice, with a tower. There is a Wesleyan chapel.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Ancient CountySuffolk 
Ecclesiastical parishAshfield All Saints 
HundredBlackburn 
Poor Law unionStow 

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.


Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Great Ashfield from the following:


Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.


Maps

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Newspapers and Periodicals

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DistrictMid Suffolk
CountySuffolk
RegionEastern
CountryEngland
Postal districtIP31
Post TownBury St. Edmunds

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