DISCLOSURE: This page may contain affiliate links, meaning when you click the links and make a purchase, we may receive a commission.
UK Genealogy Archives logo

Pakefield (All Saints)

PAKEFIELD (All Saints), a parish, in the incorporation and hundred of Mutford and Lothingland, E. division of Suffolk, 2¼ miles (S. S. W.) from Lowestoft; containing 495 inhabitants. The parish is situated on the coast, and comprises by admeasurement 670 acres: the London and Yarmouth road runs through the village. There is a lighthouse on the cliff. The living is a discharged rectory, in medieties, both valued in the king's books at £14; patron, the Earl of Gosford: the tithes have been commuted for £205, and the glebe contains about 15 acres. The church has an embattled tower; under the altar is an ancient crypt.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

Advertisement

Advertisement