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LINDSEY, a parish, with a village, in Cosford district, Suffolk; on an affluent of the river Brett, 4¼ miles NW by W of Hadleigh r. station. Post town, Kersey, under Ipswich. Acres, 1,246. Real property, £2,017. Pop., 316. Houses, 68. The property is munch subdivided. The manor belongs to James Sparke, Esq. Lindsey Hall is now a farm-house. Ravens Hall, formerly the seat of the Hobart family, is now a farmhouse. The manufacture of linsey-woolsey took its rise in this parish. Traces of an ancient camp, and ruins of an ancient chapel, are at Chapel farm. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ely. Value, £110. Patron, King's College, Cambridge. The church is Norman.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish, with a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Lindsey Parish Cosford Poor Law Union/Registration District Suffolk Ancient County |
| Place: | Lindsey |
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