Description
Martlesham, a parish in Suffolk, on the river Deben, 1 1/2 mile SW of Woodbridge station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Woodbridge; money order and telegraph office, Woodbridge. Acreage, 2631; population, 472. The manor belongs to the Pretyman family. Beacon Hill House is a mansion of brick standing in about 20 acres of ground. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; commuted value, £420 with residence. The church is a building of rubble in the Late Decorated style, consists of nave and chancel, with a tower, and contains monuments to the Goodwins and the Doughtys.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
