Creeting St Mary, Suffolk

Description
Creeting St Mary, a parish in Suffolk, which was formed in 1884 by the consolidating for civil purposes of the previously separate parishes of Greeting St Mary, Creeting-All-Saints, and Greeting St Olave. The houses are scattered over a wide area, but are about 1 1/4 mile NNE of Needham-Market, which is the railway station. It has a post office under Needham-Market; money order and telegraph-office, Needham-Market. Acreage, 3l85; population, 676. Bos-mere Hall fs a chief residence, having beautiful grounds bounded by the river Gipping. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £416 with residence, in the gift of Eton College. The Church of St Mary is an ancient Gothic building of flint and stone, with an embattled western tower. It was restored in 1884, and has two fine windows by Kempe.