Alderton, a village and a parish in Suffolk, on the coast, between the Deben river and Hollesley Bay, 8 miles SSE of Woodbridge station on the G.E.R., with a post and money order office under Woodbridge, which is the telegraph office. Acreage, 2575; population, 527. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; gross yearly value, £630 with residence, in the gift of the Archer family (three turns) and the Bishop of Norwich (one turn). The church is a modem flint edifice, and a previous church is in ruins, and serves as a landmark. There is also a Congregational chapel. Coprolites are found here in considerable quantities. Giles Fletcher, the poet, was rector of Alderton, and died here in 1623.
