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Rickinghall-Inferior (St. Mary)

RICKINGHALL-INFERIOR (St. Mary), a parish, in the union of Stow, hundred of Blackbourn, W. division of Suffolk, ¼ of a mile (S. W. by W.) from Botesdale; containing 432 inhabitants. The road from Bury St. Edmund's to Norwich runs through the village. The living is a discharged rectory, with that of Rickinghall-Superior consolidated, valued in the king's books at £16. 5. 2½., and in the gift of G. St. Vincent Wilson, Esq.: the tithes of the two parishes have been commuted for £1040; the glebe of this place contains nearly 24 acres. The church, which has about 450 sittings, is in the decorated English style, with a tower circular below and octagonal above. The Wesleyans have a place of worship.

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

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