Description
Elmsett, a village and a parish in Suffolk, on a branch of the river Orwell, 4 1/2 miles NE from Hadleigh station on the G.E.R. There is a post office under Ipswich ; money order and telegraph office, Hadleigh. Acreage, 1992 ; population, 434. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; gross value, £557 with residence. Patrons, Clare Hall, Cambridge. The church is an ancient building of flint in the Decorated style. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel. Boyse, one of the translators of the Bible, was a native.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
