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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Herringswell like this:
HERRINGSWELL, a parish in Mildenhall district, Suffolk; on a branch of the river Lark, near the boundary with Cambridge, 2¼ miles NNE of Kennet r. station, and 3½ S of Mildenhall. Post town, Mildenhall, under Soham. Acres, 2, 540. Real property, £1, 487. Pop., 203. Houses, 42. The property is divided among a few. Herringswell House is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely. Value, £200.* patron, the Rev. J. T. Hales Tooke. The church was destroyed by fire in 1 869.
Herringswell is now part of WEST SUFFOLK District. Click here for graphs and data of how WEST SUFFOLK has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Herringswell itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Herringswell, in West Suffolk and Suffolk | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/7284
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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