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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Cookley like this:
COOKLEY, a parish in Blything district, Suffolk; near the East Suffolk railway, 3 miles WSW of Halesworth. Post town, Halesworth. Acres, 1, 704. Real property, £2, 648. Pop., 252. Houses, 56. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Huntingfield, in the diocese of Norwich. The church consists of nave and chancel, with a tower; and has a Norman door, decorated English windows, an oaken roof, good carved benches, an octagonal font, and a brass of 1587.
Cookley is now part of EAST SUFFOLK District. Click here for graphs and data of how EAST SUFFOLK has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Cookley itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Cookley, in East Suffolk and Suffolk | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/7097
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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