Description

Ashby, a parish in Suffolk, near the river Waveney, 2 1/2 miles N of Somerleyton station on the G.E.R., and 6 1/2 NW of Lowestoft, which is the post town; money order office, Blundeston; telegraph office, Somerleyton, Acreage, 1105; population, 88. The living is a rectory, annexed to that of Somerleyton, in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £251. The church is mainly Early English, and has a Decorated east window, a square Norman font, and a circular west tower, with octagonal upper story.