Description
Hartest, a village and a parish in Suffolk. The village stands 4 miles N from Glemsford station on the G.E.R., .and 9 NNW from Sudbury, and has a post and money order office under Bury St Edmunds; telegraph office, Glemsford.
The parish comprises 1986 acres; population of the civil parish, 590; of the ecclesiastical, with Boxted, 789. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Boxted, in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value, £510 with residence. Patron, the Crown. The church is an ancient building of flint, in the Perpendicular style, with a tower, restored in 1879. There are an endowed school and some small charities.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
