Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CHEDISTON

CHEDISTON, a parish in Blything district, Suffolk; near the East Suffolk railway, 2 miles W by N of Halesworth. Post town, Halesworth. Acres, 2, 378. Real property, £3, 821. Pop., 418. Houses, 84. The property is subdivided. Chediston Hall is a Tudor edifice, and the seat of the Rants. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the rectory of Halesworth, in the diocese of Norwich. The church is old and tolerable. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel, and charities £49.


(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: Chediston CP/AP       Blything RegD/PLU       Suffolk AncC
Place: Chediston

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