Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TROSTON

TROSTON, a parish, with a village, in Thingoe district, Suffolk; 5½ miles NNE of Bury-St. Edmunds r. station. Post town, Ixworth, under Bury-St. Edmunds. Acres, 1,764. Real property, £2,299. Pop., 322. Houses, 85. T. Hall belongs to H.L. Moseley, Esq.; and was the birthplace of Capel, the editor of Shakespeare. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £332.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is tolerable.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Troston CP/AP       Thingoe RegD/PLU       Suffolk AncC
Place: Troston

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