Stow was a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of 22,710 acres (91.9 km2).[1]

Stow Hundred a fertile and picturesque district in central Suffolk around seven miles (11 km) in length and breadth. It is bounded by Cosford, Bosmere and Claydon, Thedwestry, Blackbourn and Hartismere Hundreds. It is in the Deanery to which it gives name and was in the Archdeaconry of Sudbury until 1837 when it was added to the Archdeaconry of Suffolk, and is thus still in the Diocese of Norwich. It is watered by the River Gipping.

The word "stow" means place, as in "stow away", and the name of the hundred was probably derived from an old name for Stowmarket, the hundred's largest town.[2]

Parishes

Suffolk hundreds
Suffolk hundreds

Stow Hundred consisted of the following 14 parishes:[1][3]

Parish Area (acres)
Buxhall2524
Combs3000
Creeting St Peter1336
Gipping900
Great Finborough1632
Harleston620
Haughley2700
Little Finborough360
Old Newton2349
Onehouse866
Shelland509
Stowmarket1240
Stowupland2890
Wetherden1784

References

  1. 1 2 William White (1844). History, gazetteer, and directory of Suffolk. p. 265.
  2. ↑ Walter Skeat (1913). The Place-names of Suffolk.
  3. ↑ 1841 Census

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