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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Combs like this:
COMBS, a parish in Stow district, Suffolk; on the river Orwell, adjacent to the Eastern Union railway, 1 mile S of Stowmarket. Post town, Stowmarket. Acres, 2, 745. Real property, £6, 147. Pop., 1, 243. Houses, 269. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £880.* Patron, the Earl of Ashburnham. The church is tolerable.
Combs is now part of MID SUFFOLK District. Click here for graphs and data of how MID SUFFOLK has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Combs itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Combs, in Mid Suffolk and Suffolk | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/7096
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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