Description
Stutton, a parish, with a village, in Suffolk, on the river Stour, 3 miles SSE of Bentley station on the Colchester and Ipswich section of the G.E.R., and 8 S of Ipswich. It has a, post and telegraph office under Ipswich; money order office, Holbrook. Acreage, 2299; population, 542. The manor belongs to the Fison family. Stutton Hall, Cropping Hall, and Crowe Hall are chief residences. Alton Hall is now a farmhouse. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £247 with residence. The church, which was partly rebuilt and enlarged in 1875, is a fine building of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel with aisle, nave, N aisle and N transept, S porch, and a square western embattled tower.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
