Battisford, a village and a parish in Suffolk, 3 miles W by S of Needham Market station on the G.E.R., and 3 1/2 S from Stowmarket. Post town, Needham Market, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1581; population, 399. An hospital of knights of St John of Jerusalem was erected here in the reign of Henry II., and given at the dissolution to Sir Richard Gresham. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £249. The church is a Gothic building of stone, with a brick tower.
