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Cookley (St. Michael)

COOKLEY (St. Michael), a parish, in the union and hundred of Blything, E. division of Suffolk, 2½ miles (W. S. W.) from Halesworth; containing 324 inhabitants, and comprising by computation 1664 acres. The living is a discharged rectory, united to that of Huntingfield, and valued in the king's books at £6. 13. 4. The church is chiefly in the later English style, and consists of a nave and chancel, with an embattled tower; the font is curiously sculptured, and there is a Norman doorway on the north side filled up. A school was founded by Thomas Neale, in 1701.

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

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