In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Easton Bavents like this:
EASTON-BAVENTS, a parish in Blything district, Suffolk; on the coast, 1½ mile NNE of Southwold, and 9 ½ E of Halesworth r. station. Post town, Southwold, under Wangford. Acres, 381. Pop., 7. House, 1. A market-town once stood here, but has been washed away By the sea. Easton Ness contests with the headland of Twestoft, being the Extensio Promontorium of the Romans. The living is a rectory annexed to Benacre.
Easton Bavents through time
Easton Bavents is now part of Waveney district. Click here for graphs and data of how Waveney has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Easton Bavents itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Easton Bavents, in Waveney and Suffolk | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/7134
Date accessed: 27th April 2024
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