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Lackford was a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of 83,712 acres (338.77 km2).
The hundred fills the northwestern corner of Suffolk and is triangular in shape, extending about fifteen miles (24 km) in length on each side. It is bounded on the north by Norfolk, on the west by Cambridgeshire, and on the southeast by Blackbourn, Thingoe and Risbridge Hundreds. It is in the Franchise or Liberty of St Edmund, in the Diocese of Ely, the Archdeaconry of Sudbury and the Deanery of Fordham.
The main towns are Newmarket (detached from the rest of the hundred), Brandon and Mildenhall as well as a part of Thetford.
It is watered by the rivers Lark and Little Ouse, the latter of which separates the hundred from Norfolk, and the former which, after crossing the hundred near Icklingham and Mildenhall, flows northward and forms its western boundary with Cambridgeshire. The area to the northwest of Mildenhall consists of low fen and part of the Bedford Level which was constructed to drain the fens in the 17th century.
The name Lackford derives from the parish of the same name, Lackford (just northwest of Bury St. Edmunds), even though that village is actually in Thingoe Hundred. The village's name means "ford over the River Lark", referring to the ford on the village's border with Icklingham.
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