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Risbridge, Monks'

RISBRIDGE, MONKS', an extra-parochial liberty, in the union and hundred of Risbridge, W. division of Suffolk, 4¾ miles (N. W.) from Clare; containing 10 inhabitants, and comprising 120 acres. This place gives name to the hundred, and to the poor-law union of Risbridge, which comprises 26 parishes or places, whereof 21 are in Suffolk, and 5 in Essex, the whole containing a population of 17,440.

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

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