Rattlesden, Suffolk

Description
Rattlesden, a large village and a parish in Suffolk. The village stands on a branch of the river Gipping, 3 1/2 miles S by W of Elmswell station on the Bury and Ipswich section of the G.E.R., and 4 3/4 W of Stowmarket, with a post and money order office under Bury St Edmunds; telegraph office, Woolpit, The parish contains also the hamlets of Poystreet Green, Potash, and High Town Green, and comprises 3299 acres, population, 980. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. Clopton Hall is a fine mansion standing on an eminence amidst some beautiful woods and pleasure grounds about half a mile NE of the village. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; gross value, £630 with residence. The church is a fine spacious building of flint in the Perpendicular and Decorated styles, consisting of chancel, nave, N and S aisles, S porch, and an embattled western Early English tower with spire. It has a good stained E window and an ancient font. A new rectory was built in 1892. There is a Baptist chapel.