Hessett, Suffolk

Description
Hessett, a picturesque village and a parish in Suffolk, 2 1/2 miles S from Thurston station on the G.E.R., and 5 1/2 ESE from Bury St Edmunds. Post town, Bury St Edmunds; money order office, Beyton; telegraph office, Rougham. Acreage, 1604; population, 353. The manor was given by Earl Ulfketel to Bury Abbey, and by Henry VIII. to the Bacons, and passed to the Leheups. Hessett Rectory is the chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net value, £209. The church is a handsome building of stone and flint, consists of chancel, nave, aisles, side chapels, S porch, and a western tower. The chancel is in the Decorated style, the nave, aisles, and tower being Perpendicular, and contains tombs of the Bacons, and a monument to Colonel Aldritch.