BINACRE, a parish in the hundred of BLYTHING,
county of SUFFOLK, 6 miles (N. by E.) from Southwold,
containing 224 inhabitants. The living is a rectory,
with that of Easton-Bavents and the vicarage of North
Hales consolidated, in the archdeaconry of Suffolk,
and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at .
£18, and in the patronage of Sir T. S. Gooch, Bart.
The church is dedicated to St. Michael. About half a
mile from the sea is Binacre Broad, a sheet of fresh
water comprising an area of one hundred acres, and
abounding with pike'and other fish. About fifty years
ago, in forming a new .turnpike road from Yarmouth
to London, through Binacre, the workmen discovered
an urn containing coins of Vespasian, Trajan, Adrian,
Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius.