Description

Bucklesham, a village and a parish in Suffolk, 1 1/2 mile NE from Orwell station on the G.E.R., and 7 miles ESE of Ipswich. The parish has a post office under Ipswich; money order office, Allan Road; telegraph office, Nacton. Acreage, 1826; population, 289. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich; net yearly value, £339 with residence. The church is of flint and stone, and was nearly all taken down and rebuilt in 1878. In this parish there are several crag pits from which numerous interesting fossils have been obtained.