ASHFIELD (GREAT), a parish, in the hundred of BLACKBOURN, county of SUFFOLK, 5 miles (E. S. E.) from Ixworth, containing 345 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich, endowed with £1400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Lord Thurlow, whose ancestor, the Lord Chancellor Thurlow, was born here, in 1732. The church is dedicated to All Saints.