Description
Stanstead, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, 6 1/2 miles NNW of Sudbury, and 3 1/4 NW from Melford Junction station on the G.E.R. It has a post office under Glemsford (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Glemsford. Acreage, 1195; population, 368. There is a parish council consisting of eight members. The manor belongs to the Bence family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; net value, £234 with residence. The church, which was restored in 1878 at a cost of about £1000, is an ancient edifice of flint in the Perpendicular style.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
