Stow was a

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, consisting of . Stow Hundred a fertile and picturesque district in central Suffolk around in length and breadth. It is bounded by Cosford, Bosmere and Claydon, Thedwestry,

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and Hartismere 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

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. It is watered by the

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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

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, the hundred's largest town.

Parishes

Stow Hundred consisted of the following 14 parishes:1841 Census

References

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