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COSFORD HUNDRED.
Includes the thriving market town of Hadleigh, and seventeen other parishes,
forming a fertile and picturesquely undulated district, watered by the river
Brett and its tributary streams. It is about twelve miles in length from north
to south, and from four to seven in breadth, and is bounded by the Hundreds of
Samford, Babergh, Thedwestry, Stow, and Bosmere and Claydon. It is in Cosford
Union, in the Liberty of St. Edmund, and in the Deanery and Archdeaconry of
Sudbury, which were taken a few years ago from the diocese of Norwich, and added
to the See of Ely; except the parish of Hadleigh, which is a peculiar of the
Archbishop of Canterbury. It has generally a clayey soil, and the following is
an enumeration of its 18 parishes, shewing their territorial extent; the annual
value of their lands and buildings as assessed to the property tax in 1815; and
their population in 1801 and 1841 :—
| Cosford 1844 | Population | |||
Parishes Aldham Bildeston Brettenham Chellesworth Elmsett Hadleigh parish Hadleigh hamlet Hitcham Kersey Kettlebaston Layham Lindsey Naughton Nedging Semer Thorpe Morieux Whattisham Whatfield Total |
Acres 1715 1240 1550 860 1974 4288 610 4056 1510 1006 2489 1246 854 810 1206 2428 1299 1571 30712 |
Rental 1953 1840 1666 1319 2489 7605 446 4126 2339 1144 3722 1333 854 867 1718 2176 1381 1932 38910 |
1801 197 744 228 234 324 2332 154 746 513 145 471 170 120 143 203 271 154 235 7384 |
1841 293 857 367 284 446 3679 232 1065 787 203 549 290 137 195 370 418 240 394 10806 |
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