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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Wordwell like this:
WORDWELL, a parish in Thingoe district, Suffolk; 5¼ miles NNW of Bury-St. Edmunds r. station. Post town, Bury.-St. Edmunds. Acres, 2,299. Real property, £964. Pop., 65. Houses, 12. The property belongs to the Rev. E. R. Benyon. The living is a rectory, annexed to West Stow.
Wordwell 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 Wordwell itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Wordwell, in West Suffolk and Suffolk | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/7977
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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