Thingoe was a

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, consisting of . One of the smaller

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, 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

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. 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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