Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FRECKENHAM

FRECKENHAM, a parish in Mildenhall district, Suffolk; on the river Lark, at the boundary with Cambridgeshire, 3¼ miles SW of Mildenhall, and 4¼ NW of Kennet r. station. It has a post office under Soham. Acres, 2, 520. Real property, £3, 388. Pop., 476. Houses, 97. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage and a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £600.* Patron, Peterhouse, Cambridge. The church is pretty good; and there are a national school, and charities £25.


(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: Freckenham AP/CP       Mildenhall RegD/PLU       Suffolk AncC
Place: Freckenham

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