CHEDISTON, a parish in Blything district, Suffolk; near the East Suffolk railway, 2 miles W by N of Halesworth. Post-town, Halesworth. Acres, 2, 378. Real property, £3,821. Pop., 418. Houses, 84. The property is subdivided. Chediston Hall is a Tudor edifice, and the seat of the Rants. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the rectory of Halesworth, in the diocese of Norwich. The church is old and tolerable. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel, and charities £49.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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