Description
Shelley, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, 2 1/2 miles S of Hadleigh station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Hadleigh (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Hadleigh. Acreage, 916; population of the civil parish, 91; of the ecclesiastical, 112. The river Brett flows through the village. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; gross value, £4:6. The church is an ancient building of rubble in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, with N chapel, nave, S aisle, and tower on N side. It contains some ancient memorials.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
