Description
Capel-St-Mary, a village and a parish in Suffolk. The parish lies on the Hadleigh branch of the G.E.R., 5 miles SE of Hadleigh, and has a station on the railway and a post office under Ipswich, both of the name of Capel; money order office, Bentley; telegraph office, Copdock. Acreage, 1917; population of the civil parish, 605; of the ecclesiastical, 661. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Little Wenham, in the diocese of Norwich; joint gross yearly commutation value, £826 with residence. The church, a building of rubble in the Early Decorated and Perpendicular styles, was restored in 1869. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
