Description
Harkstead, a village and a parish in Suffolk, on the estuary of the river Stone, 5 miles ESE from Bentley Junction station on the G.E.R., and 6 1/4 SSE from Ipswich, with a post office under Ipswich; money order and telegraph office, Holbrook. Acreage, 1740; population, 371. The manor belonged at Domesday to Odo de Campania, and belongs now to the Bemers family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £580 with residence. The church is ancient, in fair condition, and has a tower.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
