Rickinghall Superior, Suffolk

Description
Bickinghall Superior, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, adjoining Botesdale and forming part of the town, and 5 1/2 milea W from Mellis Junction station on the Ipswich and Norwich section of the G.E.R. It has a post office under Digs; money order and telegraph office, Botesdale. Acreage, 1414; population, 498. There is a parish council consisting of seven members and a chairman. The manor belongs to the Wilson family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £325 with residence. The church is a fine building of stone and flint in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, and an embattled pinnacled western tower. There are three small estates, the rent of which is devoted to ecclesiastical and charitable purposes.