Description

Benhall, a parish in Suffolk, which consists of two small detached villages, Benhall Green and Benhall Street, adjacent to the Aide river, 1 1/2 mile SW of Saxmundham. It has a post office of the name of Benhall Green, under Saxmundham, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 2165; population, 588. The manor belonged to successively the Uffords, the De la Poles, and the Dukes. Benhall Lodge is a pleasant country seat standing in a beautifully wooded park of 150 acres. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich ; net yearly value, £129 with residence. The church is a building of flint in the Norman style, and has a brass of 1548.