COWLING, a parish in the hundred of RISBRIDGE,
county of SUFFOLK, 8 miles (N.N.W.) from Clare, containing
790 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry of Sudbury, and diocese of
Norwich, endowed with £200 royal bounty, and £1000
parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Master
and Fellows of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. The church
is dedicated to St. Margaret. There are fairs on the
31st of July and the 17th of October.