Place:Darmsden, Suffolk, England

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Darmsden is now a hamlet and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk District of Suffolk, England. Located near the A14 road around 2 kilometres (1 mi) south of the town of Needham Market, it became a civil parish in April 2013 after separating from Barking. Darmsden had been a separate parish until 1841 when it was absorbed into Barking.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Darmsden from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"DARMSDEN, a hamlet in Barking parish, Suffolk; 1 mile S of Needham-Market. Acres: 790. Real property: £1,355. Population: 64. Houses: 13. It forms a curacy with Barking; and, prior to 1841, was returned as a parish."

The hamlet is on a private estate and has no public roads, although the main estate road linked to the B1113 road is open to all.

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• A map of Suffolk from 1900 provided online by A Vision of Britain Through Time (University of Portsmouth Department of Geography) can be enlarged to view individual parishes. Careful inspection will usually lead to the discovery of smaller hamlets founded before 1900. The rural districts (marked with their names printed in blue) are those in existence in 1900, not those introduced in 1934. The more ancient hundreds are marked in red. Most (but not all) parish names are underlined in red.
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