Blyford (formerly Blythford), a village and a parish in Suffolk, on the river Blythe, 3 miles E by S of Halesworth station on the G.E.R. Post town, Halesworth, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage of parish, 874 population, 163; of the ecclesiastical parish, 166. The living is a donative rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net value, £55. The church, which is an ancient building of flint, has two Norman doors and a Perpendicular English tower, but is mainly Early English and Decorated English.