Cosford was a

hundred 100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101. In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to de ...

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, consisting of . The hundred consisted of Hadleigh, the only town of any size, and seventeen other parishes in western Suffolk. The area is undulating and agriculturally-fertile with clay soil, watered by the

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and its tributary streams. It is about in length from north to south and around five wide, and is bounded by the Hundreds of Samford, Babergh, Thedwestry,

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and Bosmere and Claydon. Suffolk Hundreds 1830

Cosford was in Coxford Union in the

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and in the Deanery and Archdeaconry of

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. The area was until the nineteenth century part of the diocese of

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until it was moved to that of

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. Hadleigh itself however is a peculiar of the

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. Listed as ''Cursforde'' in the

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and subsequently known for a period as Corsford or Corsforth, the name Cosford means "ford of the river Cors or Corsa".

Parishes

Cosford Hundred consisted of the following 17 parishes:1841 Census †''Hadleigh hamlet is a separate township and part of Boxford parish in

Babergh hundred Babergh was a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of . Its name survives in that of Babergh District, the local government district of southern Suffolk that includes the former hundred as well as those of Cosford and Samford. It consisted of the lan ...

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