Description
Flempton, a village and a parish in Suffolk, on the river Lark, 3 miles N of Saxham station on the G.E.R., and 4 NW of Bury St Edmunds, with a post office under Bury St Edmunds ; money order office, Bury St Edmunds ; telegraph office, 'Lackford. Acreage, 947; population of the civil parish, 187 ; of the ecclesiastical, with Hengrave, 376. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of 'Hengrave, in the diocese of Ely; tithe commuted at £445 with residence. The church is of flint and stone in the Perpendicular style, and was thoroughly restored in 1885. There is a curious and uncommon double piscina in the sacrarium, also a very quaint old Jacobean pulpit in perfect order.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
