Description
Kesgrave, a village and a parish in Suffolk, Similes E by N of Ipswich and 1 1/2 mile SW from Bealings station on the 'G.E.R. Post town and money order office, Ipswich; telegraph office, Bealings. Acreage, 867; population of the civil parish, 90; of the ecclesiastical, with Brightwell and Foxhall, 363. The living is a perpetual curacy, titular vicarage, united with Foxhall and Brightwell, in the diocese of Norwich; united gross value, n£92 with residence. The church is a building of rubble in the Early English style, with an embattled western tower of brick. There is a priest's chamber under S side of tower which is interesting.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
