Nettlestead, Suffolk

Description
Nettlestead, a parish in Suffolk, 2 1/2 miles W of Claydon station on the Ipswich and Norwich section of the G.E.R., and 5 1/2 NW of Ipswich. Post town, Ipswich; money order and telegraph office, Needham Market Acreage, 991; population, 62. The manor belonged to the Earls of Richmond, passed to Peter de Savoy, the Tiptofts, the Despencers, and the Wentworths, and gave to the last the title of Baron. It belongs now to the Pretyman family. Nettlestead Hall was the manor house, retains an ancient gateway bearing the arms of the Wentworths, and is now a farmhouse. The living is a rectory, with Little Blakenbam annexed, in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £162. The church is a fine Gothic building of stone, and contains a handsome monument of Mr S. Sayer, of the time of Charles I. Boyse, one of the translators of the Bible, was a native.