Stow was a
hundred
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of
Suffolk
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, consisting of .
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
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Hundreds. It is in the Deanery to which it gives name and was in the Archdeaconry of
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until 1837 when it was added to the Archdeaconry of Suffolk, and is thus still in the Diocese of
Norwich
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. It is watered by the
River Gipping
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.
The word "stow" means place, as in "stow away", and the name of the hundred was probably derived from an old name for
Stowmarket
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, the hundred's largest town.
Parishes
![Suffolk Hundreds 1830](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Suffolk_Hundreds_1830.png)
Stow Hundred consisted of the following 14 parishes:
[1841 Census]
References
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Hundreds of Suffolk