Thingoe was a hundred of

Suffolk Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowes ...

, consisting of . One of the smaller

hundreds of Suffolk The county of Suffolk was divided into hundreds between Saxon times and the 19th century, when they were replaced for administrative purposes by districts. In 1831 the county was subdivided into twenty-one hundreds and three municipal borough ...

, around wide and long, Thingoe contained the borough of

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on its eastern border, though the town was considered a separate jurisdiction. The remainder of the hundred consisted of the land to the west of Bury St Edmunds. The

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rises in the hundred, flowing north to the River Little Ouse. The name derives from the words ''thing'', a Norse word meaning "assembly", and ''howe'', again Norse, meaning detached hill or mound.

Parishes

Thingoe Hundred consisted of the following 18 parishes:1841 Census

References

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