Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FRESTON, or Friston

FRESTON, or Friston, a parish in Plomesgate district, Suffolk; 3 miles SE of Saxmundham r. station. It has a post office, of the name of Friston, under Saxmundham. Acres, 1,846. Real property, £2, 486. Pop., 432. Houses, 101. The property is divided among a few. The living is a. vicarage, united with the vicarage of Snape, in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £194. Patron, R. H. W. Vyce, Esq. The church is Norman, and in tolerable condition. There are a Baptist chapel, and charities, £8.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Freston AP/CP       Plomesgate RegD/PLU       Suffolk AncC
Place names: FRESTON     |     FRESTON OR FRISTON     |     FRISTON
Place: Freston

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