Description
Stansfield, a parish, with Stansfield village and Assington Green hamlet, in Suffolk, 5 miles N by E of Clare station on the Cambridge and Long Melford section of the G.E.R. It has a post office under Clare (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Wickhambrook. Acreage, 2021; population, 410. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net value, £270 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is a building of flint in the Late Perpendicular and Decorated styles, and there is a Congregational chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
