Eye, Suffolk

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Eye is a town in Eye (Mid Suffolk), Suffolk

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Eye within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Eye in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Eye.-- municipal borough, market town, and par. with ry. sta., W. Suffolk, 19 miles N. of Ipswich and 94 miles NE. of London by rail, on an affluent of the river Waveney, 4100 ac., pop. 2296; P.O., T.O., 2 Banks. Market-day, Monday. Eye was the seat of a Norman castle, and of a monastery dedicated to St Peter. Before the introduction of machinery, considerable quantities of pillow-lace were made at Eye. Eye returned 2 members to Parliament till 1832, and 1 member till 1885.

Eye in the Domesday Book

A village in Hartismere hundred, in the county of Norfolk.

Two manors recorded in Domesday.

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