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FLIXTON, a parish in Mutford district, Suffolk; adjacent to the river Waveney and to the Lowestoft railway, 3 miles WNW of Lowestoft. Post town, Blundeston, under Lowestoft. Acres, 602. Real property, £806. Pop., 37. Houses, 8. The name is a corruption of Felix-town; and was taken from Felix, the first Bishop of the East Saxons. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Blundeston, in the diocese of Norwich. The church was destroyed by a hurricane in 1703, and is now an ivy-clad ruin; and the walls of it consist of tile and brick, and have herring-bone masonry.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
Administrative units: | Flixton CP/Ch Mutford and Lothingland RegD/PLU Suffolk AncC |
Place: | Flixton |
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