Description
Stanningfield, a parish in Suffolk, 5 1/2 miles SSE of Bury St Edmunds, and 2 NW from Cockfield station on the Bury and Sudbury section of the G.E.R. It has a post office under Bury St Edmunds; money order and telegraph office, Cockfield. Acreage, 1469; population, 301. The manor, with Coldham Hall, belongs to the Holt-Lomax family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; gross value, £328 with residence. The church is a building of stone and flint in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and a Norman tower. Mrs Inchbald the novelist was a native.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
