Mutford, Suffolk

Description
Mutford, a village and a parish in Suffolk. The village stands 4 1/2 miles SE by E of Beccles, and 5 1/4 SW of Lowestoft, and is in close proximity to Carlton Colville station on the G.E.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Beccles. Acreage of the civil parish, 1597; population, 420; of the ecclesiastical, with Barnby, 733. There is a parish council for Mutford consisting of seven members, and for Barnby of seven members. The manor belongs to the Reeve Trustees. The living is a vicarage, united with the rectory of Barnby, in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £252. Patron, Caius College, Cambridge. The church is an ancient building of flint in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles; comprises nave, S aisle, and a S porch built in 1891; has a ruinous Galilee porch at the W end and a round W tower; and contains a good chancel arch, remains of a screen, a canopied water-drain, an octagonal font of the time of Richard II., and a Norman arch over the grave of Hilderburga de Bosco. There is a Wesleyan chapel.