Assington, a parish in Suffolk, on an affluent of the river Stour, 3 1/2 miles NE of Bures station on the G.E.R., and 5 SE of Sudbury, under which it has a post office; money order and telegraph office, Boxford. Acreage, 3041; population, 591. The manor belonged formerly to the Corbets, and now to the Gurdon family, whose seat is Assington Hall. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; value, £420. The church is a building of flint in the Perpendicular style.
