Description
Cretingham, a village and a parish in Suffolk, on the river Deben, 5 1/4 miles WSW of Framlingham station on the G.E.R. The village, named after Gilbert de Cretingham, a former lord of the manor, has a post office under Wickham-Market; money order and telegraph office, Debenham. Acreage of parish, 1649; population, 298. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £90. Patron, the <^ueen or the Lord Chancellor. The church, of the loth century, is a Gothic building of flint and stone, with an embattled western tower, containing five bells.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
