Polstead, Suffolk

Description
Polstead, a village and a parish in Suffolk. The village stands on the river Box, 3 miles NNE of Nayland, and 4 1/2 SW of Hadleigh station on the G.E.R., and has a post office under Colchester; money order office, Stoke by Nayland ; telegraph office, Boxford. The parish comprises 3414 acres; population of the civil parish, 745 ; of the ecclesiastical, 736. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. A fair was formerly held on the Wednesday after 16 July, but has become obsolete. Polstead Hall is a chief residence standing in a deer-park of about 90 acres. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net value, £530 with residence. Patron, St John's College, Oxford. The church is chiefly Early Norman, consists of chancel, nave, aisles, N and S porches, and an embattled western tower with spire, and contains two brasses. There are Baptist and Primitive Methodist chapels.