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SOMERSHAM, a parish, with a village, in Bosmere district, Suffolk; 3¾ miles NE by N of Hadleigh r. station. Post town, Ipswich. Acres, 1,027. Real property, £2,017. Pop., 366. Houses, 98. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £280.* Patron, the Rev. N. J. Stubbin. There are chapels for Independents and Baptists.
(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: | Somersham Parish Bosmere and Claydon Poor Law Union/Registration District Suffolk Ancient County |
| Place: | Somersham |
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