Badwell-Ash or Little Ashfield, a parish in Stow district, Suffolk, 3 1/2 miles N by E of Elmswell station on the G.E.R., and 8 NNW of Stowmarket. It has a post and money order office, of the name of Badwell-Ash, under Bury St Edmunds; telegraph office, Walsham-le-Willows. Acreage, 1858; population, 454. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net value, £110 with residence. The church is a fine edifice of flint in the Early English, Decorated, and Perpendicular styles.