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Semer (All Saints)

SEMER (All Saints), a parish, in the union and hundred of Cosford, W. division of Suffolk, 2 miles (S. by E.) from Bildeston; containing 370 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £11. 7. 1., and in the gift of the Rev. J. Young Cooke: the tithes have been commuted for £350, and the glebe comprises 65 acres. A house of industry here, erected in 1799, has been converted into a workhouse for the union, which comprises 28 parishes or places, and contains a population of 18,237.

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

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