Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for STURMERE

STURMERE, a parish in the district of Risbridge and county of Essex; on the Cambridge and Colchester railway, 1½ mile SE of Haverhill. It has a station on the railway, and a post-office under Halstead. Acres, 945. Real property, £1,749. Pop., 326. Houses, 70. S. Hall, Abbots Hall, and Woodland Green, are chief residences. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £240.* Patron, the Rev. Dr. Fletcher. The church is tolerable.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Sturmer Parish       Essex Ancient County
Place: Sturmer

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