Description
Redlingfield, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, 3 miles SE of Eye station on the G.E.R., and 5 1/2 miles N of Debenham. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Eye. Acreage, 1060; population, 175. The manor belongs to the Adair family. A Benedictine nunnery was founded here in 1120 by Manasses, Earl of Guisnez, and was given at the dissolution to the Bedingfields. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. The church, a building of flint and brick in the Norman style, was the chapel of the ancient nunnery.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
