Wenhaston, Suffolk

Description
Wenhaston, a village and a parish in Suffolk. The village stands 2 1/2 miles SE of Halesworth, and has a station on the Southwold railway. The parish includes Mells hamlet, and comprises 2401 acres; population, 832. There is a parish council consisting of eleven members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £120 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is a handsome building of flint in the Gothic style. A wonderfully well-preserved panel painting of " The Last Judgment" was discovered in 1892 while restoring the chance!. There are Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels. Ruins of an ancient chapel are at Mells, a Norman structure which ceased to be used in 1470, Wenlock Edge, a hilly ridge of limestone rock in the S of Salop, extending about 16 miles south-westward from the vicinity of Much Wenlock to the vicinity of Wistanton.