Stow was a hundred of Suffolk, 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, Blackbourn and Hartismere Hundreds. It is in the Deanery to which it gives name and was in the Archdeaconry of Sudbury until 1837 when it was added to the Archdeaconry of Suffolk, and is thus still in the Diocese of Norwich. It is watered by the River Gipping.
The word "stow" means place, as in "stow away", and the name of the hundred was probably derived from an old name for Stowmarket, the hundred's largest town.
Parishes
Stow Hundred consisted of the following 14 parishes:1841 Census Parish Area (acres)Buxhall2524Combs3000Creeting St Peter1336Gipping900Great Finborough1632Harleston620Haughley2700Little Finborough360Old Newton2349Onehouse866Shelland509Stowmarket1240Stowupland2890Wetherden1784
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