Description
Culford, a village and a parish in Suffolk, on the river Lark, 4 miles NNW of Bury St. Edmunds town and railway station, and 2 from Ingham railway station. There is a post and telegraph office under Bury St. Edmunds; money order office, Bury St Edmunds. Acreage, 2221; population, 364. Culford Hall was built in 1591 by the Bacons, passed to Marquis Cornwallis and the De Beauvoirs, and is now the seat of the Cadogan family. The living is a rectory, with those of Ingham and Timworth annexed, in the diocese of Ely; joint net value, £423. The church was rebuilt, and its tower heightened, in 1857. A church for Culford Heath, an outlying portion of the parish, was built in 1865.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
